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Colbert is the series' rock, and a straightman contrast to the constantly yammering Person, his driver. As the stoic enigma and the hopped-up smart-ass speed through the desert landscape, you could almost take Kill for a surreal road comedy. The drama of this outstanding miniseries, and its horror, comes from knowing where that road leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater of the Absurd | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...emergent sport of chess-boxing, competitors alternate between 3-min. rounds of boxing and 4-min. rounds of speed chess, with 1-min. breaks in between to take the gloves off, etc. The winner is determined by knockout, checkmate or referee decision. Ada Calhoun spoke via translator with the 2008 World Champion Chessboxer, Russian math student Nikolaj Sazhin, 19, who won the light-heavyweight division in Berlin on July 5 after seizing his punch-drunk opponent's queen in the fifth round of chess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I've Got a Mean Left Rook ... | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...Clinton to rail against, out of habit if nothing more. They spent most of their energy during primary season going after her. (Hillary nostalgia is surely one reason they are so obsessed with Michelle Obama.) But they have turned their guns on Barack Obama with remarkable ease and speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divided They Fall | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...problem: "It doesn't leave much time to integrate the running mate into the campaign and get them up to speed," says veteran Democratic convention planner Michael Berman. With the convention already pushed almost to Labor Day, a slow-starting No. 2 might not be fully deployed, with staff and stump speech, "until sometime in September, and I think that's too late," Berman concludes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Veep Picks: What's the Rush? | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...many of the forces that have pushed candidates to speed up their choices don't apply to Obama. If the trend toward earlier and earlier announcements makes sense for anyone this year, it's Republican Senator John McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Veep Picks: What's the Rush? | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

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