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• Presided over Bill Clinton's 1998 impeachment trial in the House of Representatives. LaHood drew positive reviews for his handling of the tricky task

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation Secretary: Ray LaHood | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

So often when we evaluate dramatic performances in films, we cheat. As we don’t know what it’s like to be chased by dinosaurs, or to fight in a war, we instead cut an onscreen character down to size, distill what we can relate to...

Author: By Yair Rosenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frost/Nixon | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

Like any expatriate who lands a plum management position overseas, Reid must now wrestle with an alien culture and a tricky language. But unlike other foreign execs, he must manage not a company but a national team - at a time of national crisis. "Football is about nothing," British comedian Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Englishman in the Land Of Smiles | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

Bernhard Schlink's The Reader is one of those tricky novels that, based on the sober moral questions it poses and its close-to-elegant style, pretends to high literary seriousness while offering its readers - millions upon millions of them in the 37 countries where it has been translated - plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reader: Love and the Banality of Evil | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

The movie revs up to the gotcha moment when Frost traps Nixon into acknowledging his Watergate crimes and apologizing to the country. The reality is a tad more ambiguous. Frost is magnificent when, having pressed Nixon to say he made more than mistakes, Nixon asks him what word he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Nixon Got Frosted: Capturing History | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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