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...President and his interviewer were made for each other. The son of a Methodist minister in Kent, Frost worked worked worked himself up from the middle-class to be a top boy at Cambridge and, by 24, the host of the BBC satirical show That Was the Week That Was. Like Nixon, Frost could look false on TV - not being a host but doing one, as if relaxing in public was a test he'd crammed for. Neither Frost nor Nixon possessed a huggable personality. They rose to the top of their fields by a triumph of their will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Nixon Got Frosted: Capturing History | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Although “Australia” eventually succeeds in constructing itself as an epic film, it just isn’t a very good one.The story of “Australia” is essentially a series of clichés. Lady Sarah Ashley (Nicole Kidman), an upper-class Brit, gets wrapped up in a caper when she treks to her husband’s cattle ranch Down Under on the eve of World War II only to find him dead. Powerful cattle mogul King Carney (Bryan Brown) and his villainous lackey Fletcher (David Wenham) have consolidated a monopoly...

Author: By Samuel E. Chalsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Australia | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...bounds of her History and Literature concentration. “I certainly have found ways to academically shape what I do around food,” Gilberti, who is also a Crimson Magazine writer, says. “I’ve written countless papers about food for classes whose focus is not gastronomy. And the classes about food are there if you kind of poke around.”It has also become increasingly less difficult to find courses relating directly to food as more specialized courses have been created in recent years, including the Anthropology research seminar...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cooking the Books | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Today’s top guns learned from their example, and siphoned their massive cuts, through bonuses and other forms of compensation, out of firms that turned out to be poorly-managed, colossal houses of cards, ready to collapse at any moment. Doesn’t the latter class of actions beg for convictions and new sentences as much as the former? Why shouldn’t criminal negligence extend to white-collar board members...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Real Execution | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...impossible to say how or when the Franken-Coleman contest will be decided. All that Minnesotans - and the next class of U.S. Senators - can do is wait. Anyone looking for early clarity is bound to come up empty. Case in point, this blog-post headline currently on Coleman's campaign-website homepage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recounts | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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