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...watcher, some pilgrims want more solid mementos. Every summer they descend on Althorp, the historical home of Diana?s family, where for $25 they can walk through the rooms she played in as a child, check out the small museum that exhibits her favorite dresses and personal letters, gaze upon her grave that sits on an island in the middle of a lake - and pick up souvenirs, like a heart-shaped key ring ($12) or a bone china pillbox ($30). Diana merchandise still sells in main streets and malls in Britain and far beyond. Her likeness is etched onto stacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess of Sales | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...their appointed tasks. What does that imply for the U.S. military operation and when it might end? Or for the development of an Iraqi polity in which officials and soldiers grant the state?not sectarian or tribal divisions - their primary loyalty? Would it not mean that the very predicates upon which the war depended had collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insecurity Forces | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...Chong with a bar mitzvah. He hasn't the Woody whine and inferiority complex. Like the Martin stage persona, the characters these guys play don't have self-esteem problems; indeed, that is their problem. The only star who simmers with comic angst is Stiller. He's the put-upon loser, a jocular Job, in films like There's Something About Mary and Night at the Museum, when he's not taking roles as the pompous, uptight bad guy (in, say, Dodgeball) or the preening oaf, as in the well-nigh-immortal Zoolander. The moneymen love Stiller too, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians' Little Secret | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...comedies is astounding and appalling. Are women somehow not funny, or do audiences not want to see them at the center of a comedy? Next year, Universal will try Baby Mama, with Tina Fey as a career woman who hires Amy Poehler to carry her child. Our blessings upon it. But until some comic actress has a big fat hit, Hollywood will keep thinking of comedy as Guytown--one more genre, like action movies, where women need not apply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians' Little Secret | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

...dumped this catfish in my lap?' LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, President of Brazil, expressing annoyance upon learning that the nation's environmental agency rejected a proposed $11 billion hydroelectric project on the Amazon River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 25, 2007 | 6/14/2007 | See Source »

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