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...consider all these aspects of the genre as Appaloosa unfolds at a trot both leisurely and tense. It's good to spend time with a movie that takes its time. Granted, Harris doesn't advance the genre; instead he burrows into it, finds a home there, as one might retreat to musty library stacks, where old pleasures and treasures await...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Appaloosa, an Old-School Western | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...also pressing for an early dissolution because, it says, Fukuda "threw the administration away" by resigning so soon. Seiji Maehara, vice president of the DPJ, says, "The LDP people hope Aso will be in power," but he says an early general election will just prove that LDP will trot out the same old policies while the DJP has revolutionary ideas that will win it the "reins of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Japan, A Strategic Resignation | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...leaders, military commanders and U.S. troops were accompanied by credible talk of withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq and a Bush Administration diplomat joining Iran discussions. John McCain faces the possibility of losing one of his few advantages: a firm focus on national security. With Obama on an international globe-trot, McCain was forced to spend the week reacting to the Democrat's every move rather than aggressively shaping the debate with his own message. The fight to control the agenda is usually an ongoing tug-of-war between the two candidates. In this case, Obama dominated the story line, dragging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...Obama's trip - let's not quite call it a summer vacation - should have him back just in time to pick a vice presidential nominee and, like Mccain, start cramming for his party's convention. Then sprint will begin. For now, though, the campaign remains at a gathering trot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week in Politics | 7/12/2008 | See Source »

...about alleged sexism in the coverage of her campaign, while other Democrats are upset at Obama's recent moves toward the center. The second complaint is childish. Securing your base and then moving to the center is the fundamental move of politics, like the basic steps of the fox-trot. And Obama is hardly responsible for Clinton's press coverage. But there is no easy way these folks can vent their anger at Chris Matthews. So they are taking their revenge on people without health care, women who need abortions, and others who they (if they supported Hillary) must think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divided They Fall | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

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