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...famous Nazi killer from prison; a moment in bed with a German officer and his French interpreter; a crowd shot in which high-ranking Nazis are ID'd with their names printed over their heads. Most of the film, though, reminds you that Tarantino may be a world-class director but what he really wants to do is write. Here the most explosive confrontations are verbal - long dialogues, often admirably tense and usually in French or German. (It's basically a foreign-language film.) The chats take the form of interrogations. A German officer probes; a Resistance fighter evades. (Read...
...says Jordan Campbell, spokesman for Marmot Mountain Works, an outdoor-equipment company that sponsors Zangrilli. "He's going to have to climb light and fast and maybe carry Pérez over his shoulder to get him down. But he's done it before. He's led a few world-class rescues." (Read a TIME article from Kilimanjaro...
...Olympic podium: "The national anthem starts to wail, creating a dreaded musical pressure in my chest as the flag slowly rises in a celebrating-the-dead kind of way. Something churns and my mind says: Wow! This is exactly like a giant funeral!") And for a world-class swimmer, she's not obsessed with swimming. Or rather, the novel isn't. Swimming really is like breathing for Pip--so integral to her life that it goes virtually unnarrated. What that means for readers is that we can relate to her; she may be amphibious to the outside world, but inside...
This week TIME and the Aspen Institute are convening the Aspen Health Forum to discuss the most critical issues in health care and medical science. We are bringing together more than 75 world-class scientists and thought leaders in Aspen, Colo., to explore and discuss everything from the science of sex to food for a new world. Guests include Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the best-selling author Dr. Deepak Chopra. For next week's issue, I will be interviewing heart surgeon and author Dr. Mehmet Oz for our regular...
...economy that continues to grow at a rate of 6.7%. Sibal also intends to make this new wave of higher education accessible to a larger swath of students, having foreign schools reserve over a quarter of their seats for India's economically disadvantaged. "If India wants to be a world-class educational hub, then we need access to global institutions," said Sibal early in July. (Read about India's grass-roots teachers...