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...guzzlers, rejoice! Ultimate Hummers revels in the pleasures of cars that make tree huggers cringe. Read about "anti-SUV terrorists" and the lifestyle they threaten. A recent cover line: "Diesel Fuel: Here to Save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vices In Vogue | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...supposed to wave the flag and rally behind our President so that he can finish the job he had no business starting--launching some new wars against other countries we think threaten our God-given right to rule the planet and bleed it dry, all while turning the U.S. into a cross between a theocracy and an oligarchy? I'd move to Canada first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 2004 | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...latest move by the Governor's team is to threaten the legislature with a redrawing of the districts that elect them. Because the statehouse now determines voting districts, the current map generally ensures that incumbents face minimal challenges to re-election. That promotes the election of politicians who tend toward the extremes of their parties, and the resulting polarity in the statehouse produces gridlock. Schwarzenegger wants to set up a panel of nonpartisan judges to supervise redistricting. If, as expected, the legislature opposes the idea, he is considering going back to the people in a special election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Arnold Show | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...though it has recently been much more successful in penetrating global markets by pushing its own brand. Chinese acquirers will face similar challenges. TCL has yet to explain how it will turn around money-losing Thomson, which sells old TV models, and boardroom squabbles with its new French executives threaten to upset the venture. "We don't have much fun in Paris anymore," says an aide to Li Dongsheng, TCL's chairman. Shanghai Automotive, for its part, hopes that its Rover purchase will compensate for its troubles at home, where Shanghai Automotive has had to cut prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whole Lot to Swallow | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

Mike Nichol’s new film Closer is infused with this type of magical chemistry, and at times the potency of the alchemic mix threatens to make its world teeter off balance. With a screenplay by Patrick Marber, adapted from his play of the same name, the picture is a tone poem to both love and its darker side. Dan (Jude Law), an obituary writer and aspiring novelist, shares a moment of charged visual contact with a beautiful girl as he makes his way to work in London one day. Her name is Alice (Natalie Portman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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