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...that is just as politically pointed as Death of a President but with a wildly raucous, satiric tone. It is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, whose guide is a purported TV host and "sixth most famous man in Kazakhstan" of the former Soviet Union. Borat is the nom de guerrilla-humor of Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G. - as HBO viewers know, and many millions more will, when this deeply sick, utterly irresistible film opens in theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...White House - but his specialty was death-of-a-president fantasies. In The Manchurian Candidate, published in 1959 and filmed three years later, he postulated the assassination of a presidential nominee by a Joe McCarthy type (the right-wingers did it!) who was controlled by an agent for the Soviet Union (no, the Commies did!). And in the 1974 Winter Kills, also filmed a few years after it appeared, Condon portrayed a president very like John F. Kennedy who is assassinated by... his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Killed George Bush? | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell Bells May Return to Motherland | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...After the industrialist Charles R. Crane purchased the bells from the Soviet Union, he presented them as a gift to University President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1930. Lowell House, then under construction, had its tower redesigned to fit the bells...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lowell's Russian Bells Set to Head Home | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

...publisher of this magazine called on readers to help make the postwar era "the first great American Century." There had certainly been an American Half-Century, culminating in the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But the post--cold war phase of hyperpower could not last forever. In the years after 9/11, the U.S.--though still the world's dominant nation--faced multiple and growing challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation That Fell To Earth | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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