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...mass of moviegoers. Here, though - and this is what lifts Seven Pounds above other Smith dramas - he does tentatively allow another adult onto his solitary planet. Dawson, glammed down in hospital gowns and an invalid's grayish sheen, is knowing, giving and (her word and ours) hot. She's splendid at showing how someone who's tucked herself into the reclusion of her illness wills herself to bloom in the presence of someone with a secret mournfulness greater, and perhaps less curable, than her own. It's a lovely performance, in part because her character throws every charm...
...steps down. And few states can boast such a formidable Democratic Party machine, which undoubtedly makes things easier for those on the blue side of the spectrum to take some real American liberties with their position. We thank Gov. Blagojevich, his wife, and his advisers for contributing to a splendid heritage, one of which all Illinoisans may feel justly proud...
...when my patients would come in to visit me, more out of a sense of getting a book signed than getting their diabetes treated, I started to see the writing on the wall." He was wise to hang up his stethoscope. In 2007, his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, also hit number one, and has just appeared in paperback. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs sat down with Hosseini to discuss his work and his native country...
...come to write A Thousand Splendid Suns? I was finishing up The Kite Runner, which had turned out to be a novel about men - the lives of men, fatherhood, brotherhood, and so on. Even as I was finishing the editing of that book, I had decided that I had to write a second book and address the issues pertaining to women. So I put that idea on the back burner and just kind of let it simmer. I went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2003, and I met with people who worked for nongovernmental organizations, people who worked...
...Bush years weren’t splendid times for many people—economic turmoil, wars, that incident with the pretzel—but they were comedy gold. Not since Dan Quayle has America had such a prominently placed source of continual gaffes. Back during the 2000 campaign, when people based their presidential choices on whimsical criteria like “Someone I’d Like To Have A Beer With” or “I Couldn’t Figure Out How the Ballot Worked,” everyone laughed incredulously at the slow but steady...