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Tony is as smart, wily and manic as ever, but now he's a man with a mission: to dismantle his own company. Which doesn't thrill his longtime, avuncular, head-shaved partner, Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges). No matter: Tony has never taken "Don't" for an answer. Like a geek in a Silicon Valley garage, a knight smithing his own armor, Tony retreats to his workroom to build himself a new casing. And he won't make Dr. Frankenstein's mistake of using shoddy materials. This will be no stitched-together, run-amok creature. It can't be Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Iron Man': A Movie Marvel | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...Readers of movie reviews often think that critics hate the big Hollywood stuff and cherish only the little films about Romanian abortions or Iranian kids. But some of us, this one anyway, knows that there's an American style - best displayed in the big, smart, kid-friendly epic - that few other cinemas even aspire to, and none can touch. When it works, as it does here, it rekindles even a cynic's movie love. So cheers to Downey, Favreau and the Iron Man production company. They don't call it Marvel for nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Iron Man': A Movie Marvel | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

What is Michelle Obama like, and do you think she would make a good First Lady? -Zach Mohler, BALTIMOREShe came and spoke at the Women's Conference, where we had all the candidates' spouses come together. I found her to be very gracious, smart, funny, irreverent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Maria Shriver | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...John Karefa-Smart, who will turn 93 in June, said he would spend the rest of his life working to improve Sierra Leone’s 80-percent illiteracy rate...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sierra Leone Panel Focuses on Future | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...Irish word, which former Sierra Leonean Foreign Minister John Karefa-Smart defined as “big stick” at a panel discussion on Sierra Leone in Sever Hall Saturday, refers to a problem-solving tactic. Find the cause of the problem, and hit it with a “shillelagh...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sierra Leone Panel Focuses on Future | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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