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...weeks of the event it describes, tells of the killing of a Baltimore maid by a rich, politically connected society toff named William Zantzinger. Don't cry yet, Dylan warns in each of the first three choruses, as he relates the awful particulars of the case: "Now ain't the time for your tears." At the end, he spits out the judge's obscenely lenient decision: "And handed out strongly for penalty and repentance, / William Zanzinger with a six months' sentence." Dylan's message: Don't weep for one blameless soul brutally, thoughtlessly killed; weep for the system that, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan at 65 | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

...blueprint sketched by Bush, his ?Border Integrity and Immigration Reform Act? would require all applicants to leave the country first. Pence tweaks a phrase from Bush?s address to the nation by calling the compromise ?a REAL rational middle ground.? Even though Bush has said his preferred solution ?ain?t amnesty,? Pence appeals to hard-liners by calling the compromise a ?no-amnesty solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Compromise Plan on Immigration | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

...which he acquired his 714th hotel, a journalist asked how he coped with the pressure. "Pressure?" Gilmore scoffed. "Real pressure is having four kids and paying a school tax of $150. Real pressure's breaking your leg and scrounging for fifty bucks for the doctor's fee. Monopoly ain't pressure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Magic 714 | 5/23/2006 | See Source »

...than act as international police. Others claim that superiors are overlooking their reports about conditions on the ground. If the U.S. and its Iraqi allies are making progress in eroding the appeal of the resistance, the men in Ramadi don't see it. Says an American officer: "This s___ ain't going anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Dangerous Place | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...says that "we are not getting excited because this is a long process--though we are winning. The tide is turning." But for those in the midst of the battle, that can sometimes be hard to see. "No matter what they say about the rest of the country, it ain't like this place," says a battalion officer in the thick of the fight. "It's the worst place in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Dangerous Place | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

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