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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many layers of history and nuance to her father's personality he changes from Ogre to tragic casualty of self-denial. Conflating the worlds of personal history, "queer studies," and literary criticism, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home can be enjoyed as any of those, or just as a smart, insightful, funny/sad story about growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Need for Sensationalism | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

Although not shown in the opening sequence, he has become the reason smart people watch Entourage, HBO's Sex and the City for guys about a hot young actor and his posse. In the third season, his character goes through more falls, including huge gambling losses. Creator Doug Ellin said he put Piven's name in the original outline two years before he shot the show. "He always is alive. He brings a kinetic energy that you can't take your eyes off," says Ellin. He was shocked that Piven's throwaway line, "Let's hug it out, bitch," became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Favor Boy No More | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

...anytime talk minutes plus unlimited data use. What this means is that unless you are prepared to do a lot of data-intensive activities with the phone like check e-mail 10 times a day, surf the Web or upload photos, this smartphone may not be a smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motorola Q Smartphone | 5/31/2006 | See Source »

...green as Kermit the Frog. He is a mere 44 years old and has been a member of the U.S. Senate for less than two years. He sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but he has zero military and national-security experience. He's a very smart guy, a quick learner, but no one is that quick. If he runs and makes a fool of himself, a very promising political career could be suffocated in the crib. But somehow you get the feeling that Obama would not make a fool of himself-indeed, it is far more likely that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama Isn't Not Running for President | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...Message: As if to prove that smart equals sexy, Mortensen preached the value of activism to his alma mater's class of 2006 by quoting Seneca--in Latin: "Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt." Translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice From the A List | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

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