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...game plan designed by the league's best coach, Bill Belichick, Brady dismantles the Bills. No doubt Bills customers at home in western New York are disappointed. Two weeks earlier, it was the Pats turn to disappoint, courtesy of a whipping from the surging Pittsburgh Steelers. The real winner, as it is every Sunday, is the National Football League. "We compete against each other for three hours a week," says Robert Kraft, owner of the defending-champion Patriots, speaking of his gridiron adversaries. "Otherwise we have aligned interests...
Rush's performance is undeniably a tour de force. (Oscar winner plus HBO movie plus multiple roles--they probably engraved Rush's Emmy months ago.) And Life and Death is stylistically ambitious, but it never becomes more than a style exercise. As Sellers did, it desperately throws stunts at you to keep your attention. When it sheds light on Sellers' craft as an actor, it is fascinating. But above all, this is the story of a man his first wife lambastes as a "bore of a little boy." Life and Death finally proves her right. --By James Poniewozik
It was both a symbol and a symptom of the revolution that rippled across Ukraine last week. On Thursday, as the presenter of state-controlled UT1's main morning news program was updating viewers on the Central Electoral Commission's decision to declare Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych the winner of the country's Nov. 21 presidential vote, Natalya Dmitruk, the woman who translates broadcasts into sign language, decided to send a very different message. "When the presenter started to read the news," Dmitruk tells TIME, "I said, 'I address all deaf viewers. Yushchenko is our President. Do not believe...
...it’s a complete package. The Crimson, winner in nine of 10 tries, improved its home record to 7-0-0 Saturday night with a gritty offense, a stalwart defense and a vintage performance in net by Dov Grumet-Morris...
...Shui-bian was the big loser in the island's legislative election last Saturday. Candidates from Chen's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party and its ally, the Taiwan Solidarity Union?known collectively as the "green" camp?won only 101 out of 225 seats in the fiercely fought contest. The winner: the "blue" Kuomintang- or KMT-led opposition, which favors eventual reunification with China, managed to retain a slim majority by securing 114 seats, just one more than it previously held. KMT chairman Lien Chan emerged from his office at 8:30 p.m. wearing his biggest smile since losing a close...