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...Minister Bernard Kouchner instead. By the time the day of the meeting rolled around, the French press was reporting that the Dalai Lama had become so disgusted at Sarkozy's cave-in that the Tibetan leader feigned an illness to avoid having to greet the Plan B delegation. (In vain: he wound up hosting Bruni and Kouchner at the inauguration of a Buddhist temple in the south of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...burden. Still, Giorgos Karamalis, the head of the government's Civil Protection operations in Mytilene, concedes that he is struggling to respond to the flood of arrivals. Karamalis says he regularly stuffs the two-story detention center to more than double its 350-person capacity, or tries - often in vain - to rent hotel rooms for detainees. "We have reports of hundreds of thousands on Turkish shores waiting to cross over," he says. "The numbers are so vast now, we fear we may lose control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greece's Immigrant Odyssey | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Moore's real talent isn't so much acting as having a good time while acting on the side. Say what you like about him, Moore is not vain, and he doesn't have exaggerated ideas about his abilities as a thespian. He cheerfully cops to having been the most lightweight of Bonds. He presents himself as a cheerfully overgrown boy blessed with astounding leading-man looks, a greater-than-average air of aplomb, the bare minimum of dramatic talent and no intellectual gifts or hidden depths to speak of. His greatest joys in life are his children, eating, drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Bond Played On | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...when Keith paws a “Creole woman” in the second track and then moves on to the best cut of the album, a high-energy, hook-heavy jaunt with a rebellious preacher’s daughter, it seems like that hope might not be in vain. But the warning signs are already evident—she may be sitting on a motorcyle, but this girl’s got a Bible and a gentle touch, and Keith is receptive: “When my gypsy-life started taking its toll / And the fast lane got empty...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toby Keith | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...picture, is real because she eats moose. Obama is not real, because he eats arugula. Yet arugula is served at strip-mall chains like the Olive Garden and Panera. Rachael Ray--not exactly a food snob's idol--makes pasta and beef tenderloin with it. I have looked in vain for her mooseburger recipe. Why are you so out of touch with yourself, America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Coverage, and the 'Real' Issue | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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