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TIME's Lina Lofaro spoke to Amy Ryan (The Wire) about her role as Helene, the terrifying, alcoholic mother of a missing child, in Ben Affleck's directorial debut Gone Baby Gone...
...Auckland bee farmer, Edmund Hillary, and his Sherpa climbing partner, Tenzing Norgay, joined those of Peary, Amundsen and Lindbergh atop the hill of 20th Century adventuring giants. With the death of Hillary at age 88, the all five are gone. LIFE Books editorial director Robert Sullivan first spoke with Sir Edmund - his friends call him Ed - in the living room of Hillary's home in Auckland in 1992. Sullivan enjoyed three subsequent conversations with Hillary, the most recent in February 2003. The following interview is based on those four talks...
...congenial mate? Yes, very, very. It wasn't easy to communicate with him in those days. Although he spoke a certain amount of English, we couldn't discuss the philosophy of life, that kind of thing. But mountaineering decisions and so on, he was able to deal with those...
While Bush spoke of history's judgment, the short term may be more important right now for most Americans. If the last year in Iraq has changed the course of the war and the region's future, the next year in that country may determine who will succeed Bush in the White House. Petraeus and Crocker have started an analysis that will determine the troop levels through the heat of the election season from July through November. The success of the surge has diminished the role of Iraq in the U.S. campaign; but the political - and electoral - ramifications...
...Barack Obama is right that most voters want Washington to be more hopeful and less divided. They want a leader to appeal to what President Lincoln called the "better angels" of our nature. Former President Clinton spoke often of a "bridge to the 21st century." As advisers meet to retool Senator Clinton's campaign, they might consider that until now, her primary message seemed to be a U-turn to the 20th...