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...other people in the world, lost in their own preoccupations, benignly indifferent to the issues absorbing Juno, absorbing us. It is a smart reminder that the story any fiction relates is arbitrarily chosen and dependent for its effect on the ability of its tellers to enlist our interest - no special pleading, no emotional cheap shots permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juno: No False Notes | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...make a war movie about Iraq until we have some distance on what has happened in Iraq because I don't think you can make a fake movie by going to Marrakech or Death Valley and putting guys in desert commando outfits and having them shoot at extras with special-effects helicopters flying around and have that be more insightful than what I can get off of YouTube by typing in "combat footage from Iraq." Charlie Wilson's War is about something happening in 1980. I'm going to lay claim to the fact that we actually have some distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking History | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...Dailin lets out an audible gasp when he is told that he was identified in the U.S. as someone who may have been responsible for recent security breaches at the Pentagon. "Will the FBI send special agents out to arrest me?" he asks. Much as they might want to talk with him, though, FBI agents don't have jurisdiction in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, where Tan lives. And given that he has been lauded in China's official press for his triumphs in military-sponsored hacking competitions, Tan is unlikely to have problems with local...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enemies at The Firewall | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...winning," he told Paul's supporters. Schlafly drew attention to policy details. Speaking about illegal immigration, he said that while Huckabee believes in being tough on illegal immigrants, unlike other candidates, he does not want to punish their children. Lorch said in an interview that Romney should have special appeal to Harvard’s Republicans as a graduate of both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School. "He takes the type of analytical viewpoint that’s characteristic of Harvard," Lorch said. Also represented were student advocates for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Sen. John McCain...

Author: By Max J Kornblith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Republican Students Lead Mock Debate | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...Khamenei). There is an Iranian army and a - more powerful - Revolutionary Guard Corps. As recently as two years ago, a senior U.S. diplomat told me, "We don't know anything about what goes on inside that government." But that has changed fairly dramatically in the past year. A special CIA Iran-analysis group, which calls itself "Persia House," was split off from the agency's Middle East regional analysts. A major effort was made to recruit human intelligence sources inside Iran. And then, in June and July, the new Iran assets began to pay off. Some of the information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Nukes: Now They Tell Us? | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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