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...boat or something. In this spirit, the first time the Nude (Paz de la Huerta) hove into sight, nude on the Lone Man's bed, her rump in the air, wearing librarian glasses, she made perfect sense. Every cinematic hitman has a distracting girl stashed somewhere, and the blatant use of her sexuality needs to be parodied. (Her first line is the utterly rhetorical, "Do you like my [bottom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Control: Hitman of Your Dreams | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...abilities; you're odd because you're a hero. Spider-Man emits goo from his fingers, and he can fly. The Hulk gets mad and becomes bigger and stronger. Wolverine's Dragon Lady fingernails make him the toughest guy on the block. It's the outsider's ultimate dream. Use what's different, the Marvel gurus teach their readers, and you could get your own comic-book franchise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wolverine: There Ain't No Sanity Claws | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...doing stand-up now? Yes. I'm still doing my stand-up. I learned very quickly in my Seinfeld years - I got a little lax about it, and then I went onstage after not having been onstage for a while, and it was like, oops. If you don't use it, you lose it, and I saw that it's a really nifty skill to have learned, especially so early in my life when you're not fully formed, to have all the fear mechanisms in place. I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Carol Leifer, Late Bloomer | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...executive chef at Adelaide's Red Ochre Grill, which has been serving it since the 1980s. Kangaroos are mostly harvested in the wild for population control, hunted at night by licensed shooters who sell to processing plants. Only four out of 55 kangaroo species can be culled for commercial use. In 2002, the national quota was at a high of nearly 7 million, but as kangaroo populations declined with dry weather, that number has been reduced by half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kangaroo: It's What's For Dinner | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Africa can still use structured, focused aid. The problem is that aid should be properly used. It must support the government's own development agenda. And the country itself should use its own resources well. I think in a few places in Africa, this is happening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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