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...Gomorrah of European society. (Nino Rota's music from La Dolce Vita and other Fellini films ornaments the sound track.) Valentino had just come from Paris to open a salon; Giammetti was still in college. Their serendipitous encounter cued a grand, contentious, lifelong partnership. A handsome man whose strength is revealed in whispers, Giammetti seems fulfilled by his crucial supporting role. When an Italian journalist asks him, "How would you define, in one word, your choice to live in another man's shadow?", Giammetti replies, "Happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ode to a Fashion Legend, Valentino: The Last Emperor | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...question mark after it. I don't like to commit, because you just don't know what's going to happen. It's got to do with 'the moment is now.' " In the same interview, Richardson testified to her future husband's chameleonic nature. "Liam has this gentleness and strength," she says. "He can cry like a baby and fight like a bear." In her last days, Neeson must have done both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richardson: A Star Always Worth Watching | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...argument is even simpler. A liquidation of the car firm would probably cost tens of thousands of jobs at the company, and many times that at suppliers. That argument is also old, but with the chance of liquidation in the next few months becoming more likely, it refreshes the strength of the logic. (See pictures of automakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Motors Checkmates Obama in Two Moves | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...doctors express regret when things go badly without having it thrown back at them in court, some hospitals have seen malpractice suits drop by half. Any marriage counselor can tell you that love means always having to say you're sorry. An apology is that rare instrument that restores strength through an act of surrender. This is not a matter of etiquette. It's a matter of survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lost Art of Saying I'm Sorry | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...priest supposed to figure out that an exorcism is warranted? How do they judge who is and who isn't a worthy candidate? The ritual stipulates that there are three signs that the priest has to look for: abnormal strength, the ability to understand unknown languages and the knowledge of hidden things. But they're very arbitrary, even those things. So they have to be in concert with something else. And typically what priests look for is what they call the aversion to the sacred, which is a person's inability to pray, to say the name of Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of a Modern-Day Exorcist | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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