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...could be Baghdad; it is Riyadh. The Kingdom shifts the current jihad one country south, from Iraq to Saudi Arabia. The movie also rouges the image of Americans in Islamic countries. Instead of being trapped in a four-year (and counting) quagmire, they come into town, clean things up and get out. What many thought would be the 2003 reality of a U.S. fighting force in Iraq has become a film fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Win the War on Terror! | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...appear on the PBS television show “Exposé” this evening. Dean S. Miller, who is spending this academic year at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, was at the time the executive editor of the Post Register in Idaho Falls, Idaho, a small-town newspaper with a circulation of 26,000. In 2005, the Post Register reported that Brad Stowell, a Boy Scouts leader, had molested not two boys, as had been previously reported in 1997, but two dozen. In a series of articles, the Register reported that the national organization of the Boy Scouts...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nieman Fellow To Appear on PBS | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...have worked in transient jobs since the beginning of time--as soldiers, truck drivers, traveling Bible salesmen--leaving the wife and kids home to hold down the fort or moving the entire family from town to town. But with today's preponderance of dual-career couples--80% of the labor force--it is just as often the woman's job that separates the partners. Stephanie Coontz of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., a historian of marriage, argues that this represents a newly egalitarian attitude toward marital roles. "There's no longer the assumption that the woman immediately puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Till Work Do Us Part | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...easily dissuaded bunch. Brijuni still has a full tee sheet, and tractors and other land-moving equipment swarm Istria's hills like nest-building insects. The Croatian assistant minister for tourism, Robert Pende, told Time that investors are bidding to develop a 36-hole site in the small town of Skradin near the city of Sibenik in Dalmatia, despite having to hire ordnance experts to clear mines before laying down turf, giving an entirely new meaning to lift and place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Croatia's Approach Shot | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...Terminator,” “Superman II,” and the like), but the show is rooted in an ethos of comedy that anyone can plug into. Who out there can’t appreciate the idea of rival child-talent agents angrily dividing up the town? (“We get fat kids!” “Great—we get freckles and lisps!” “Sassy black kids!” “Amputees!”) Creators/writers/stars Paul Scheer, Rob Heubel, and Aziz Ansari...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best TV You Didn't Watch | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

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