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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rapture of Marco Polo on first seeing China. There, he quickly located two mentors: Jim Barlow, performing sleight of hand at Merlin's Magic Shop, and at the Golden Horseshoe Revue, Wally Boag, a comic who made funny balloon animals. From them came the raw material for Martin's act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve Martin, a Mild and Crazy Guy | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...VERDICT The EPA has promised to act by year's end, but the state wants to give the industry time to redesign 2009 models. If California wins, about a dozen other states say they will follow suit with emissions-level laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...done," says Marvin Olasky, editor of the evangelical weekly World. J. Lee Grady, editor of Charisma magazine, where some of the six advertise, hopes all can prove their innocence, but he adds, "If God wants to use a Senator to help the American church clean up its act, then I say bring on the Reformation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going After the Money Ministries | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...Take one!” he says, “they’ll be replaced.” Elated and relieved, I crouch down and pick up a piece, then unwrap the toffee and ingest the art. All the while, I feel small waves of my sacrilegious act crush down into my stomach.Both rich and minimalist, “Untitled” embodies the themes of identity and mortality that run throughout his work. González-Torres, a Cuban-born American, remains known for his installations of everyday objects, like strings of lightbulbs and sheets of paper, displayed...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Candy-Coated Art Delights And Provokes | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...slowly began to heal. Kerik's press was good, but unlike Bratton, Kerik took care to stay in Giuliani's shadow when it mattered. By the time Kerik stepped down in 2002, Giuliani was the godfather to two of Kerik's kids. The two men then took their buddy act private: that year, Giuliani took in Kerik at Giuliani Partners, the firm the mayor set up to perform security and emergency consulting work for companies and governments around the globe. In addition, Giuliani and Kerik had their own partnership within the partnership, named Giuliani-Kerik, which consulted on prison management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudy Giuliani's Kerik Problem | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

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