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...Cannes Palme d'Or in 1989, then a sizable commercial success, Quentin Tarantino showed Reservoir Dogs at Cannes in 1992, but that was the merest fanfare to his Pulp Fiction, a Palme d'Or triumph in 1994 and probably the defining movie - certainly the most vivid, film-wise comic epic - of its decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soderbergh and Tarantino: Warrior Auteurs | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

Walker does his best to help us wise up, but don't feel too bad the next time you enjoy your iPod or gulp down a Starbucks Frappuccino. You just can't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...good as you do well. That's the message of this wise book by the former general counsel of GE. Heineman's goal is to keep CEOs out of the Hall of Shame--no one wants to be the next Jeff Skilling. "The generals will be held to even higher standards than the troops," Heineman warns. But even if chieftains follow his comprehensive blueprint for integrity, Heineman believes that perfection, alas, is unattainable: "We don't need, and won't get, saints in our corner offices." But CEOs, he argues, must learn to walk the walk, as well as talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...Students who are so unfamiliar with BCBS’s approach to abortion coverage that they are not already aware of the opportunity for the refund are not those students strong enough in their convictions (or familiar enough with this issue) to make a wise and socially conscious decision regarding this element of health insurance. It is easy to imagine a student who is not sexually active or who engages in only the safest modes of intercourse choosing to opt for the refund because they cannot imagine themselves ever needing an abortion and find the idea of aborting disturbing...

Author: By Emma M. Lind and Ramya Parthasarathy | Title: DISSENTING OPINION: A Dollar and Sense | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...faces. Lau's face holds do much emotion, she can break you heart just by being photographed; Maggie Cheung has never looked more ravishing than in her long, pensive scene here; the planes of Tony Leung Ka-fei's visage have the drama of great modern architecture. Leslie Cheung, wise, pouty, ever dangerously alert, binds this poetic, episodic film. A suicide at 46, in 2003, Leslie will live forever in glorious films like this one, which I'm happy to say is being released for U.S. theatrical distribution by Sony Pictures Classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Film Country for Old Men | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

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