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...them. Yet, for all its inconclusiveness, this is a curiously entertaining film. Its sets may be visibly false, but there is something truthful about its message: it is saying that big cities - even heartbreakingly beautiful ones like Paris - conspire to prevent us from making connections that in simpler contexts might easily be made. Private Fears in Public Places, is a sad, wry, yet not entirely devastating contemplation of the loneliness of cities and of the little, self-absorbed lives that they shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exquisite Films of Paris | 5/11/2007 | See Source »

...heart disease would change their lifestyles. In reality, most don't. So "in the next several decades, the polypill looks like the answer." Depending on the trial results, doctors may be prescribing it within three years. By then, staving off a deadly cardiac event could be a whole lot simpler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Remedy Off the Rack? | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...slice up and squeeze the money out of the doctor-patient relationship only if it's reduced to a lifeless, mechanical emulation - an algorithm. But it's more complex and beautiful than those without feeling and judgment can know, and sometimes, like in Tim's case, it's simpler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Judgment to the Test | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...audience of this book. “War and Liberty” often seems like “War and Liberty for Dummies,” the abridged and simplified version of a much-lauded book Stone previously published on the same subject. Consequently, his writing style is much simpler than one would expect, and everything is broken down into laymen’s terms. While not summertime reading, “War and Liberty” is nonetheless relatively straightforward. As Stone reminds us, while we’ve come a long way from the Sedition...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Simple Guide to ‘War and Liberty’ | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...means he has replaced Le Pen as the nexus of French discontents, but in defeat Bayrou has given his voters no explicit guidance on how they should vote in the second round. Sarkozy calls himself the "candidate of work" and courts the France that gets up early: he wants simpler labor laws, lower taxes and a leaner public service. Much of that ought to resonate with voters for Bayrou's Union for French Democracy (UDF), which, since its inception in 1978, has frequently allied itself with the right. But Sarkozy's sometimes gleeful propensity for sowing division sits more easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal has the left and Sarkozy has the right | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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