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...which brings him into contact with Janet Hartigan (Sarah Jessica Parker), to whom he once gave a bad grade, but who is unaccountably willing to forget and forgive - a process he does not make easy for her. He does not make living with him easy for anyone. Not his super smart daughter, Vanessa (Ellen Page), doing a role reversal, in which she plays a sort of surrogate parent to him; not for Chuck, his feckless brother (hilariously played by Thomas Haden Church)- not for anyone who crosses his lurching path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smart People: A "Could See" Movie | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...problem with all of these measures was that they continued to depend on interpretation by Bush Administration lawyers, who continue to be both secretive and evasive of congressional intent. As recently as February 6, the day after the Super Tuesday primary, a White House spokesman refused to rule out the future use of waterboarding as a technique for high-value detainees. The Attorney General has also declined to say that the technique, or other extreme techniques, are outlawed. On March 8, Bush vetoed the latest congressional attempt to force the CIA to adhere to the Army Field Manual, a rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has McCain Flip-Flopped on Torture? | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...Nothing risky or distinctive - no wine-y, Kenya-like acidity, none of the super-richness of my favorite Sumatra (which I looked longingly at on the menu while ordering the Pikes Place) - just a blend that tasted like the American statistical coffee median. Starbucks says it took input from about 1,000 customers in designing Pike Place, and I could taste every one of them in there. This was a cup of coffee brewed by committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starbucks' New Brew: A First Taste | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...Omodele-Lucien and Nguyen completed the sweep with an 8-4 victory at No. 3.In singles, No. 1 Kumar and No. 2 Clayton each won 6-4, 6-3, while No. 4 Nguyen won 6-4, 6-1.At No. 3 Ermakov lost a tight match in a super-tiebreaker after splitting the first two sets.Though Chijoff-Evans and Omodele-Lucien lost their Ivy League debuts, their teammates rallied around them.“I remember when we played our first Ivy League matches,” Kumar said. “We were so nervous that we could hardly hold...

Author: By Jonathan B. Steinman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quick Start in League Play | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...same ones that Muslims, American or not, are taught to uphold in their daily lives. As an American-born Muslim, it's easy for me to follow these values - just as easy as it is for my husband and his friends to gather together to watch the Super Bowl: just sketch in some beards, insert a prayer break and delete the alcohol. (The legal drinking age is one American law that Muslims disregard completely - Islam prohibits alcohol consumption, at any age.) Such strict rules, to some, are a sign of extremism, and so are the beards - to some, our five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Being American — and Muslim | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

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