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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...turns the viewer into an exasperated parent; this is a directorial style in need of a spanking. As co-writer, she falls into the truckling-and-treacling mode evident in her script work on Stepmom and The Story of Us. But, lordie, does I Am Sam open the tear ducts! Movie theaters may have to install sluice gates, thanks to Penn's solid, precise and brave performance and his warming kinship with Fanning. He makes the film's shameless sentiment almost as meritorious as it is meretricious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Come, All Ye Dysfunctional | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a woman told TIME that police officers were encouraging people to head for the store. But when demonstrators marched on government buildings and set fires outside the Presidential Palace and on the ground floor of the Economy Ministry building, police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time To Cry For Argentina? | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...weird Oriental minstrel show," as one character puts it, and wraps its assimilationist anthems into a merry multicultural trip from Tiananmen Square to San Francisco's Chinatown. Director-choreographer Robert Longbottom adds a dollop of kitsch--and somehow the mix is funny and clever. It even jerks a tear or two. Broadway, get ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Flower Drum Song | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...partly due to the success of the luxury train. But Sapa still has almost no nightlife and hasn't even gotten around to assigning names to its streets. Surrounded by mountains, bamboo forests and dramatic rice terraces, the town is just as enticing as the journey?if you can tear yourself away from the sofas, open-hearth fireplaces and board games at the Victoria Sapa Hotel (a three-day train-and-hotel package, priced from $188, includes one night's hotel stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Aboard! Play It Safe. Take a Train in Vietnam | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...touted mail disinfection, a 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of anthrax in late November; despite increased security since Sept. 11, airports have allowed people with sharp implements and potential weapons board airplanes. At O’Hare Airport in Chicago, passengers managed to bring cleavers, stun guns and tear gas past security checkpoints; at Logan, a checkpoint was left unmanned while an employee took a break...

Author: By Phoebe M. W. kosman, | Title: Customer Security or Corporate Insecurity | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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