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...applies using his gadgets and charisma. The Mob (led by Eric Roberts) they can handle, with the help of stalwart police lieutenant James Gordon (Gary Oldman). But the Joker - this guy is nuts. He does deals with the Mob, then crosses them up. He makes a point with his pencil by ramming it into a gangster's head. "This town," he says, "deserves a better class of criminals." So do action movies, and here he is, vowing to bring down Batman and Dent, just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Batman Is Back — TIME Reviews The Dark Knight | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...history of the People's Republic, secrecy was replaced by transparency and bureaucracy by efficiency. Your report highlighted the fate of the children crushed to death in the thousands by collapsed school buildings - evidence of heartless violation of construction codes in the pursuit of illicit profits. The pencil-clutching hands and bloodstained backpacks amidst the debris of jerry-built schools are a silent rebuke to local officials, and demonstrate the need for a serious crackdown on corruption. In the face of nature's overwhelming power, the Chinese people empowered themselves through compassion and acts of charity. However, their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...ignoring all the stuff he shares with his family, things like the house and the car and the pantry. Yet he's still not sure he can let go of all but 100 of his own possessions. Right now he's down to one nice pen, one mechanical pencil and one spork, although he counts that last utensil as part of a camping cooking set that includes two pots. And his current tally of 97 items doesn't include his toy trains, woodworking tools and a few other things he says he still needs to think through. But his daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Live With Just 100 Things | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...back. "You're looking at a team with five or six guys that are 6 ft. 3 in., 6 ft. 4 in.," says Keller. "They can still be mechanical - we are going to win a free kick - then there's going to be five monsters flying into the box." Pencil in the monsters for the semis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer: An American Game | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...pencil in the Spanish for the semis. Just hope they get there. "Spain is the anti-Germany," says Keller, who played in La Liga for Rayo Vallecano. "Spain will do everything possible to not get into the final." The problem, says Reyna, is that Spain would rather win a 5-3 goal fest than grind it out 1-0 like the Italians. Yet Spain's game, says Keller, "is the style of game that everybody wants to see. Everybody has respect for Sweden. But what do you want to watch?" As a goalkeeper, Keller doesn't want to watch Cristiano...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer: An American Game | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

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