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...that said, I'm inclined to cut The Great Debaters a certain amount of slack. It wants to speak of large issues that remain relevant to us today. It wants to remind us that the seemingly abstract issues these young people are grappling with had authentic, immediate and dangerous implications in their own lives. And that we are not all that far removed from a time in this country when simply being black, whether outspoken or invisible, was a highly risky business. The film may be manipulative in its construction, and cliché-ridden in some of the incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Debaters' Gratifying Clichés | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...televangelist Pat Robertson in 1988, who placed second in the Republican caucuses. If Huckabee wins Iowa, however, the rest of the Republican Party awaits, and it is unclear how they will respond to a candidate who speaks openly about class disparities in America. At minimum, the strategy is certain to define him against the rest of the Republican pack, which includes the son of a Navy admiral, John McCain, the son of a governor, Mitt Romney, and a wealthy big-city mayor, Rudy Giuliani. As Huckabee rarely fails to mention on the trail, he was born to a part-time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Will Huckabee's Populism Play? | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...think vigilance is in order when the investor is a foreign government," Clinton said. "My principal concern is to increase transparency so that there is a clear understanding of where these funds are coming from ... and what the potential downsides might be of having a foreign government control certain assets in our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Governments Get a SWF Financial Kick | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...South Korea--whose reputation as a cloning powerhouse took a hit in 2005 after one of its most prominent researchers was shown to have faked data on cloning human stem cells--announced in a peer-reviewed journal that they have cloned genetically modified cats that glow red under certain lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...yawning gap between the value of imports and exports. True enough. But the link between the loonie and the worldwide boom in commodities had even more to do with it. If you graph the value of the Canadian dollar with the prices of oil, natural gas, certain metals and grain, "it's pretty hard to tell which is which, down to every little squiggle," says TD Bank Financial Group chief economist Don Drummond. It's no coincidence the loonie was at its strongest against the U.S. dollar when oil prices first shot toward $100 per bbl. That same week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Loonie Takes Off in Canada | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

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