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...fable about a special girl with a condition that's hard to explain), is no great shakes as an auteur. She dawdles in sketching Bella's high school chums, and her direction of the dialogue will often bore those who aren't mouthing it from memory as the actors speak it. But she chose her leads wisely: the pretty Stewart is a questioning, questing presence; the Brit Pattinson, a sensitive-stud dreamboat. And Hardwicke is faithful to the book's chaste eroticism. The couple must put off having sex because, well, it could kill Bella. (AIDS metaphors are unavoidable here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight Review: Swooningly True to the Book | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...mean more that can be spent by consumers. In any case, during the past eight years we have been redistributing wealth - from our kids, and theirs, to the upper few percent on the economic ladder with little or none trickling down to the common man the GOP purports to speak for. Dan Thompson, Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

What's clear within the first moments of Chinese Democracy is that Rose still has his snarl. His voice always was a power tool with endless precision settings, and on "Better" he opens by speak-singing in a tender falsetto before the guitars kick in and he sandblasts away at the melody. What Rose has to say - "A twist of fate, the change of heart kills my infatuation" etc. - is a bland list of romantic gripes that fail to diminish the song's impact one bit because it's how Rose sings that matters. Repeating the word better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy, at Last | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...showed sex workers in several different lights. After each clip, Khan, who is an assistant professor at the Department of Law at Carleton University in Ontario, Canada, encouraged the assembled undergraduates, alumni, and graduate students to react to the characters and their portrayals. The intimate discussion, so to speak, centered around the various issues and factors surrounding the sex industry, including class, sexual orientation, race, and gender. They also addressed agency and power struggles experienced by the sex workers and their clients both in film and in reality. Some attendees, such as Rheeqrheeq A. Chainey...

Author: By Wendy H. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Films Focus on Prostitution | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...looking for, but at the same time you just want to play football.”The process shifts in December, as both anxiously await invitations to all-star games and actively pursue agents. While the intrigue is there, and the last four or five years speak for themselves in terms of each player’s performance—Berry has a pair of First Team All Ivy honors, and Pizzotti is likely to be this year’s Ivy League Player of the Year—it will all come down to the all star games...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE GAME '08: Making the Bigs | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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