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...seem simpatico but have trouble becoming a couple, as in (500) Days of Summer. What the new films share is an aim to evoke familiar laughs and perhaps a climactic tear. That's the difference between an action movie and a comedy: the first makes you gasp, "I've never seen that before!"; the second has you nodding, saying "Hey, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Out of Love with Romantic Comedies | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...script, by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, imagines that the perfect young man, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Tom, falls in love with the perfect young woman, Zooey Deschanel's Summer. But she's reluctant to commit; she refuses to think of them as a couple, even after they've become best friends and sex partners. (Read TIME's review of (500) Days of Summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Out of Love with Romantic Comedies | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...opportunity to pounce, while lawmakers are at home in their districts. "Right now, we're losing the messaging war," says Senator Chris Dodd, who, in the absence of ailing chairman Ted Kennedy, led the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee's successful effort to produce a bill. "We've got to regain our footing and make the case that the status quo is unacceptable." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Health-Care Push: Congress Says It's About Time | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...Because I've always assumed that judges are impartial and neutral, I would say it's not a political compromise, but it is certainly in line with compromises that have been imposed in the past," says Douglas Johnson, a Sudan scholar who has advised the south Sudanese and who was in the original group of experts that determined Abyei's boundaries. "By excluding [some of] the oil fields, it removes the main objection that Khartoum had to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borders of Sudan's Oil-Rich Region Shrink | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...host of contentious issues that the parties are facing, not least of which is the demarcation of the entire north-south border, which has many other oil fields," says Colin Thomas-Jensen, a policy adviser at the Washington-based Enough Project, who has written extensively on Sudan. "We've seen a lot of rhetoric and commitments on both sides, and that's positive. But there's a history in this region of saying one thing and doing another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borders of Sudan's Oil-Rich Region Shrink | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

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