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...Alison's one sounding board is Debbie, who has issues of her own. In a word, she's a bitch. Ben's friends might diagnose Debbie's condition as a severe case of PMS, and they wouldn't be far off, if the P is for Perpetual. She hardly tries to conceal her hatred of men, and her husband in particular: "I get worse-looking and he gets better-looking. It's so unfair." Her theory of getting men to do a woman's bidding - "You criticize them a lot, and then they get so down on themselves that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Knocked Out by 'Knocked Up' | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...students. They will be his final tribute, bearing his standard for decades. As for Falwell's "politics of division," Jesus said, "Do not suppose I have come to bring peace to the earth! I came to bring trouble, not peace" (Matthew 10: 34). As Falwell knew, the word of God is often at odds with the twisted schemes of mankind. Brian Robinette, Van Nuys, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...Hopeful" is a safer word? It's a safer word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Faith | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...story for a communist-bloc press agency. Besides, Poland had itself been kicked around by imperial powers, so Kapuscinski knew what it was like - as he wrote in The Shadow of the Sun - "to have nothing, to wander into the unknown and wait for history to utter a kind word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fellow Travelers | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...raining more than ever/ Know that we'll still have each other/ You can stand under my umbrella") owe more to Doris Day than Madonna. But Rihanna, a Barbadian ex--beauty queen who just released her third album, has a special talent for vocal innuendo. She toys with the word umbrella--or, as Rihanna would put it, um-ba-rella, ella, ella--as if she's taking it for a ride on a water bed. It's hard to believe there will be a sexier song this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downtime | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

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