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Both his rhetorical style and his ingrained disposition tend to obscure rather than reveal. This is how Obama remains enigmatic no matter how much we see of him. As the campaign enters its last chapter, it may not be enough for him to say, as he often does, "This election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Faces of Barack Obama | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

Quite often, though strangely not in Kerry's case, the referendum gambit is a rationale for mudslinging. This year we have John McCain's attempt to paint Obama as aloof, messianic ... a celebrity, like Paris or Britney. The McCain ads have the slightly sordid quality of an inside joke: Oprah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Open to Debate | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

But the boy's renown has the ACA focusing its anti-bullfighting campaign on him as a means of drawing attention to their wider bid to end all bullfighting in France. Bullfighting is currently prohibited under a law that bans gratuitous cruelty to animals, yet it is allowed in certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Young to Bullfight? | 8/4/2008 | See Source »

It was with much interest that i read Jack White's article on Nigerians' blighted hopes ((NIGERIA, Sept. 6)). In particular the reference to the U.S. government's ''quietly warning businessmen to beware of scams in which executives are lured to Nigeria . . . only to be kidnapped and held for ransom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WARNINGS ABOUT NIGERIA | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

They're vital and craggy in this film. Faces jump off the screen and leech into your memory. Homer, a round-faced Freddy Fender type, and Tommy, the Valentino wannabe, and Yvonne, despair stamped on her prettiness. At the Ritz, bit players become stars for a second, like the toothless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exiles on Indie Street | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

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