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...school, so I want to play a teacher ... I was attracted to it for a personal reason. At this point in my career, I wanted to express my own feelings about my country and where it is. That's the first thing. The other is that there weren't that many [serious] films coming out, because the film business has gone a little more toward straight-out entertainment. So when I saw the script, I thought, This is smart. It's also tricky, because it's a triptych. How do you balance out three stories that seem to be disparate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lions Roar | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...highfalutin internal designation for Wal-Mart's 3,500-unit domestic discount chain, was to map every underperforming store in the country. Most of the worst were clustered around big coastal cities like Boston and Los Angeles. As he toured those stores, Castro-Wright could sense they weren't connecting with their neighborhoods. And neither were the managers--they weren't in Arkansas anymore. "You'd talk to managers and they'd ask, 'If I do a good job, can I come home in two years?'" he says. Who other than Yankees fans would consider two years in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restoring Wal-Mart | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...continue with the same humbleness," she says. "In my heart I'm the same humble woman as before. Of course I have to change my clothes. I have to put on clothes more appropriate for the position. But I feel that I'm the same. Humble. If it weren't that way then I wouldn't be seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Everyone (Important) Is a Chavez | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...United Church of Christ in northern Denver who attended some 50 Rockies games this year, thinks the team is increasingly sensitive to its reputation. In 2005 and 2006, the Rockies had a "Christian Family Day" at Coors Field. This season the Rockies renamed the promotion "Faith Day," though there weren't many rabbis or imams at the park. "To do that to appease other religions is hypocritical to say the least," says McHendry, who helped organize the event. "It was truly a Christian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Jesus Wear Purple Pinstripes? | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...Before the simulation, I asked FEMA why they weren't using real reporters instead. I was told that the material was too sensitive, for one thing, and for another, real reporters would change the dynamic of what was intended to be a learning atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why FEMA Fakes it With the Press | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

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