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Before the accident, the nameless hero of Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle (Doubleday; 468 pages) was a freakishly handsome, drug-addicted porn star who was also, deep breath, an orphan and a misunderstood genius who secretly wrote poetry. This is what Brits call overegging the pudding. But in the burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balls of Fire | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

For such a pivotal figure in sports history, not much is known about Bikila. Perhaps there is little to know. A poor villager who faithfully served the Emperor and was coached by a charismatic Swede named Onni Niskanen, Bikila left neither piles of letters nor much insight into his own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abebe Bikila: Barefoot in Rome | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

Shi told a press conference that the pair planned their attack for a month. He said that on early Monday morning the two suspects stole a large Dongfeng delivery truck. Shortly after 8 a.m. Beijing time (or 6 a.m., in the unofficial local time) one of the suspects telephoned the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jihad in China's Far West | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

Solzhenitsyn was born in a resort town in the Caucasus mountains in 1918, the same year the last czar of Russia was murdered by the Bolsheviks. He never knew his father, an artillery officer who died in a hunting accident while his mother was pregnant. His mother was a typist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 8/4/2008 | See Source »

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is due to meet his Pakistani counterpart, Yousuf Raza Gilani, on Saturday on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit in Sri Lanka - the highest-level talks between the two countries in 15 months. And the role of the ISI is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Vindicated by Pakistan Charge | 8/1/2008 | See Source »

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