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...with the villain role) and overrun by his gang. One of the few readers in a world of illiterates, Carnegie wants what Eli has, for he believes that the Bible's rhetoric can subdue men more successfully than fear and firearms can. "They'll do exactly what I tell 'em," he says, "if the words are from the Book." (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Savior: Denzel Washington in Book of Eli | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...they rarely get to decide how to use it. This isn't what I came here to do, a President sighs, to which the answer is, Too damn bad. Lonely and frustrated is what being President means, and when Obama summons his predecessors' ghosts late at night, they can tell him how it went. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama After One Year: The Loneliest Job | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...that he was finding, as every President finds, that many of them lose their minds. House Speaker Sam Rayburn warned him about it: "Sycophants will stand in the rain a week to see you and will treat you like a king," he said. "They'll come sliding in and tell you you're the greatest man alive - but you know and I know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama After One Year: The Loneliest Job | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...President is ever going to appoint him to anything," says Kevin Sullivan, former White House press secretary under George W. Bush and now a p.r. consultant. "But the American public is very forgiving." Sullivan, who admits he'd never take Edwards on as a client, nevertheless had some advice: tell it first, tell it all and tell it yourself. The ship has sailed on a couple of those - unless of course, there are more skeletons in the Edwards' well-appointed closets. So even though some people are begging Edwards to just go away, he needs to fess up to anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can John Edwards' Dreadful Image Be Rehabilitated? | 1/23/2010 | See Source »

...once needed to tell Bob Marley to relax...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Women Want? He Thinks So. | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

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