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...dozen different films are fighting to get out, and the best one doesn't always win. Miracle at St. Anna lugs its central narrative around much as Train does the statue head. And just as he rubs it for good luck, so Lee hopes the bonding of slow, sweet, huge Train and little Angelo - a kitschy mix of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and Charlie Chaplin's The Kid - will propel audiences through the screeds on racism and the disasters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spike Lee Goes to War with Miracle at St. Anna | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Houghton, a patron of the arts and the occupant of the building's showpiece apartment, a three-story, 7,000-sq.-ft. (650 sq m) residence complete with a marble-floored ballroom. Into it, for $15 million, move Paul and Annalisa, a creepy hedge-fund manager and his sweet wife. Paul wants to install in-wall air conditioners, which is against the building's rules. That sparks a feud with Mindy, the shrewish president of the co-op board, who's married to James, an obscure literary novelist who has just authored a massive best seller. A few floors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Text and the City | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...acuities of this smart, sweet, bordering-on-adorable romantic comedy is its awareness that by senior year, teens have been stuck for so long in their designated roles - nerd, vamp, rebel hottie - that they feel like indentured servants to them. The most agreeable myth of the movie, directed by Peter Sollett and scripted by Lorene Scafaria, from a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, is that spending a night in New York City can crack the shell of stereotype to reveal your utterly cool inner life to someone who turns out to be your soul mate. For Nick, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist: Enchanted Evening | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...critics, the trial he's currently facing - on federal corruption charges for allegedly lying about gifts from an oil infrastructure company - is sweet revenge. Opening arguments start Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two-Minute Bio: Senator Ted Stevens | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...financial institution and say, 'We'd like to buy your bad assets,' they're going to say, 'Let's sit down and talk right this minute.' " Some on Capitol Hill, including Representative Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Committee, think the deal is too sweet for Wall Street and are pushing to give taxpayers a piece of equity in the companies they would bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Questions About the $700 Billion Bailout | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

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