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...complementary styles of the executives begin to take hold. Feliz-Taveras walks alongside the models, venturing suggestions and compliments. Su leads by example, using the respect she clearly commands. And El-Hage? On one of the trickier scenes, she goes to work. “Face! Walk together...

Author: By Alexander J.B. Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eleganza | 4/23/2010 | See Source »

...mainly fought by isolated groups of men and was overlaid by a sense that our foes were fundamentally different from us. In that sense, the war in the Pacific bears a closer relation to the complex war on terrorism the U.S. is waging now, making the new series a trickier prospect but one with potential for more depth and resonance. "Certainly, we wanted to honor U.S. bravery in The Pacific," Hanks says. "But we also wanted to have people say, 'We didn't know our troops did that to Japanese people.' " He wants Americans to understand the glories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...apparent jostling for influence is making Nepal's tricky politics even trickier. By far the most difficult issue left unresolved since the 2006 peace talks is the integration of the former Maoist guerrilla fighters into Nepal's army, a conflict that led to Prachanda's resignation as Prime Minister last year. India's military academies have historically been the training ground for Nepal's top officers - the Nepali army chief graduated from the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun - so the Maoists have long claimed, most famously in a fiery speech by Prachanda in December, that India backs the Nepal army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: Caught Between China and India | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

...near-vertical drop at the start of the track and the steep curves at the top propel sliders at unprecedented speeds at the outset, making the later twists and turns even trickier to negotiate. "I think they are pushing it a little too much," Austrian luge athlete Hannah Campbell-Pegg told the Associated Press the day before Kumaritashvili's fatal accident. "To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and we're crash-test dummies? I mean, this our lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics Open with Restrained, Respectful Celebration | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

...Lockheed and Boeing. The company already has a big and impressive lineup of boosters that it sells regularly to the military and commercial launchers. And with 37 flights in the past 36 months, it clearly knows its business. The problem is that ULA rockets were not built for the trickier job of launching people, and not a single one of them is crew-rated. It will take at least four years to make the necessary adaptations according to one industry insider, and that's assuming no delays or cost overruns. Never assume that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Liftoff: Obama's Plan Grounds NASA | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

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