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Recently, a well-known public official said this to someone refusing to shake their hand at a press event: “Fuck off then, stupid bastard.” Ordinarily, one would assume that this figure must be a tawdry celebrity, someone with a level of maturity and emotional restraint akin to that of Britney Spears. Yet it was not a pop icon, but rather Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, who uttered this statement...

Author: By Marina S. Magloire | Title: A Presidential Faux Pas | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...Rothschilds, the famous Jewish family of financiers and art collectors. An ex-Gestapo officer and biographer, Hansjürgen Koehler, has claimed that Hitler's grandmother once worked as a maid for the Vienna branch of the family, giving rise to rumors that she may have sired a bastard son, Hitler's father, with a Rothschild. Whatever the real reason for his enmity, Hitler, a failed art student, ordered the plunder of Rothschild collections in both Paris and Vienna to help stock his Führermuseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spoils of War: Looted Art | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...mixture while I add the hot spaghetti for the carbonara. He reaches over and stirs the bacon, grabs a string bean from the pot and eats it. He is mad guesting, Olympic-level guesting. He's been over for two hours, and it occurs to me that the smooth bastard must have turned off his cell phone before he got here. When I leave the table to check on the lamb, he puts extra bacon on my pasta. He's doing impressions-Pat O'Brien confusedly reporting outside Clooney's Como villa, expecting Pitt and Jolie's wedding (Clooney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Clooney: The Last Movie Star | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...wind had erased their track, but after more than four exhausting hours they saw fellow team member George Lowe, who'd climbed up to meet them. He asked how the attempt had gone. "Well," said Hillary, "we knocked the bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiet Conqueror | 1/18/2008 | See Source »

...here finally Tenzing and I were there. I certainly didn't have an arrogant feeling. Before we came down off the mountain, Lowe met us on the South Col. He said "How did it go?" And I said "Well, George, we knocked the bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with the Last Adventurer | 1/12/2008 | See Source »

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