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Michigan has gone Democratic in every presidential election cycle since 1988--but it could surprise this time around. While Democrats usually benefit when economic concerns dominate an election, Barack Obama is running only a few points ahead of John McCain in statewide polls, a margin neither side considers safe. Adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Michigan | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role: Hugh Jackman, who made a surprise appearance to promote next year's X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He understands what Keanu Reeves, Benicio del Toro and other actors who ascended the stage of the San Diego Convention Center's cavernous Hall H...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comic-Con: And the Winner Is ... | 7/28/2008 | See Source »

To the surprise of some, however, this was also the year that Ratzinger began a long-running intellectual engagement with the atheist and secular forces he saw rising in the West. In his 1968 theological masterpiece, Introduction to Christianity, Ratzinger used a pithy exploration of the Christian creed to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pope Who Engages Secularists | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

Beneath the stadium, a few minutes before the medal ceremony, the Americans told Norman their plan. To their surprise, he backed them. They didn't know that the Melburnian, raised in the Salvation Army, was a Christian who didn't so much loathe racial prejudice as not understand how it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Image | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

It's an inversion of the usual '60s-retrospective equation (J.F.K. + space = optimism). But what makes Mad Men great TV is how it subverts our expectations. Thus the philandering Don turns out to be Peggy's biggest backer in the sexist office. Thus Peggy in turn is not a persecuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Men on a New Frontier | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

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