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...instant social acceptance of Penelope's defining characteristic wouldn't suit the social-outcast theme of Leslie Caveny's script. Penelope has been so scarred by the superficial way she's been judged that, when she goes into a local pub, she wears a kerchief across the middle of her face, forcing her to drink a glass of beer with a straw. Caveny also has a slew of sow jokes to subject us to. "Bad nose job," notes Reese Witherspoon, who shows up at the bar (and was one of the film's producers). And when Penelope gorges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Boleyn Girl: When Child Stars Grow Up | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...theme of pragmatism was picked up again in the context of inter-Korean relations. "The core task," Lee said, "is to help all Koreans live happily and to prepare the foundation for unification" of the peninsula. But that, as everyone knows, is easier said than done. It is perfectly true that nothing lasts forever and that one day the totalitarian rule of Kim Jong Il in North Korea will end. Some analysts suspect he is in poor health, and he does not seem to have an obvious heir within his family. But it is also true that many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Pragmatism | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

Todd took a literary approach to guilt by exploring shame and forgiveness as a theme for Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky...

Author: By Josh M. Zagorsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Describe Guilt in 3 Disciplines | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

Others said they were excited by the prospect of DeGraw’s performance, singing the first few lines of “Chariot” or “I Don’t Want to Be”—the theme song for the CW show “One Tree Hill”—to friends who were unsure of DeGraw’s identity...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DeGraw May Headline Yardfest | 2/26/2008 | See Source »

...Once. It wasn't the best song - indeed, none of the five finalists deserved to be nominated in a category that has honored "Lullaby of Broadway," "The Way You Look Tonight," "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe," "Over the Rainbow," "Under the Sea," "Streets of Philadelphia" and "Theme from Shaft" - but the gesture was cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Evening for 80-Year-Old Oscar | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

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