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...Weeks. For Séra, however, money has never been the point - facing the difficult realities of the nation's present is, and that goes hand in hand with facing the atrocities of the past. "I try to give some sign of those times," he says. "I try to tell people: Don't forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comic Relief | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...confirmed Heston's status as epic hero; it won 11 Oscars (including one for Heston as Best Actor). Truth to tell, Ben-Hur was long and logy, but it got the actor his finest role in his best film. El Cid is up there with Lawrence of Arabia in the epic empyrean: passionate, eloquent, with a visual and emotional grandeur. As the 11th century soldier seeking peace with Spain's large Muslim minority, Heston gave heroic heft to a pacifist warrior. At the end, the Cid, close to death, orders that his body be strapped to his horse and carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlton Heston: The Epic Man | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...about positivity, not genes; on Big Give, your ability to better yourself is limited only by your willingness to help others; on Gunn's and Kressley's shows, your problem is not in your hips but in your head. We want the shows, like the Wizard of Oz, to tell us that we had courage, brains and heart inside us all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV Wants to Heal You | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...need figures like Martin Luther King to mobilize individuals who share beliefs to make our policies reflect them, and we need opinion leaders like Congress and the Supreme Court to make policies that lead us to better beliefs. But we also need popular culture. It doesn’t tell us what to think—it tells us that others think what we think, too. It is the voice of the silent majority; it is the emperor?...

Author: By Ryder B. Kessler | Title: The Emperor’s Boy | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...start of a life story, but it was less than two pages. She never found anything more. Maybe Ann had run out of time, or maybe the chemotherapy had worn her out. "I don't know. Maybe she felt overwhelmed," says Soetoro-Ng, "because there was so much to tell."-With reporting by Zamira Loebis and Jason Tedjasukmana/Jakarta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of Barack Obama's Mother | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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