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...Mess with the Zohan, the latest Adam Sandler comedy readying for its North American release this Friday, more than a few movie buffs caught the whiff of something familiar. There were some who saw in Sandler's shaggy new look and scattered speech patterns, similarities to Borat, the fictional Kazakhstani television celebrity played by Sacha Baron Cohen in the hit 2006 comedy. Others saw the wording of the title - and the casting of John Turturro as Sandler's arch-nemesis - and were reminded of 1998's The Big Lebowski...
...insightful coverage, both in print and online, of the conclusion of the primary season. For TIME.com on the night of the final primaries, Mark Halperin reported on critical backstage maneuvering on Barack Obama's plane; David Von Drehle and Jay Newton-Small dissected Hillary Clinton's almost-concession speech; and Washington bureau chief James Carney examined John McCain's first real attempt to stop the Obama hope machine. In this week's magazine, Joe Klein explains how Hillary found her political soul during the campaign but warns that she could lose the Democrats the presidency if her fervency turns...
...Hillary Clinton his friend. Then he borrowed her kitchen knives and sharpened every one, attacking Obama for his naiveté, inexperience and general wussiness. Obama may be young and cool, McCain said, but his ideas are "old" and "tired." It was a strong attack, but watching him deliver a set speech with a clenched grin to a partisan crowd may have made voters miss the McCain who made them feel like part of some feisty rebel band, not deckhands on the Death Star. "This was not a speechmaking contest," McCain adviser Alex Castellanos noted on CNN. "Thank...
Clinton was next, in a Manhattan gym several stories underground, where even cell phones died. A Clinton hasn't given a concession speech since 1980, so anyone looking for an acknowledgment of defeat was hunting for teacups at the hardware store. She congratulated Obama on the race he had run without noting that he'd won it, and called every vote for her "a prayer for the nation," as though she alone could answer...
...Which is why Clinton's ungracious and solipsistic speech on the night of Obama's triumph was so disappointing. She acknowledged Obama briefly, as a candidate but not as the nominee, then proceeded to a paean to her working-class supporters ... and to herself. "In the millions of quiet moments, in thousands of places, you asked yourself a simple question: Who will be the strongest candidate and the strongest President?" she said, and then repeated the dubious claim that she had "won" the popular vote. She may have considered this the opening salvo in a tough round of negotiation with...