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...that so many of the comics she had nurtured, and in some cases helped out financially, were now turning against her. "The people who stabbed her in the back were people she fed and gave places to live," says Alan Bursky, the former stand-up who had become an agent - and who ostentatiously crossed the picket line just to show his support for Mitzi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy at the Edge Excerpt | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...border patrol agent believed you - based on your knowledge of the local school board politics of Flint, MI, perhaps, or maybe just that trustworthy glint in your baby blue eyes - you were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Border Rules | 1/30/2008 | See Source »

...George W. Bush enters his last year as President unpopular, politically weak and with his place in history largely dependent on the unpredictable future of Iraq. But Bush believes his revamped staff and newly centrist foreign policy can broaden the view of his presidency and reframe him as an agent for freedom at home and abroad. Beneath Bush's modest proposals and lofty rhetoric Monday evening, the subtext will be simple: history will vindicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Last Stab at a Legacy | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

...Even for a January splatter-fest movie, Unpraiseable is spectacularly stupid. Toward the end, the killer knows Agent Marsh's identity and is out to seize, fricassee and kill her. So her boss takes her off the case and tells her, in effect, get out of here; we won't have any cops guard you when you go through the rain, at night, alone and unprotected, to the creepy motel room you've moved into. Apparently, Marsh has an electric car, because when she drives onto a bridge - where there are no drivers to help her - the killer is able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiding from Untraceable | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

...dozens of alleged traffickers and at least 10 civilians have been killed in the fighting since the New Year. The violence has also spilled into the U.S., with Mexican police this week arresting an alleged drug trafficker for using a Hummer to run over and kill a Border Patrol Agent in Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Narco-Insurgency | 1/25/2008 | See Source »

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