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...comedian was a guest on RockPolitik, an irreverent mix of song, satire and sermonizing hosted by Italy's most popular entertainer, Adriano Celentano. After sitting down to write a mock letter of apology to Berlusconi, the odd couple racked their brains for something positive to say. Drawing a blank, the scrawny comic then feigned a call to a friend who works for the Prime Minister's party, but no luck there either. "Nothing," he told Celentano. "But he said he'll make some calls and get back to me in the morning." The performance was vintage Benigni, a longtime leftist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Laughing Matter | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...Attempts to identify the bombers by circulating an estimated 300,000 photos of their severed but still recognizable heads have also drawn a blank. Police say they plan to distribute another 300,000 copies across the archipelago. Last week, they also offered a hundred million rupiah reward?about $10,000?for anyone who can identify one of the bombers. The police have offered up to 1 billion rupiah, or $100,000, for help that leads to the capture of the two Malaysian terrorist kingpins believed to be behind the attacks, Azahari Husin and Noordin Top?an amount that shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bogged Down in Bali | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...hang up pictures of myself,” he chuckles. “You can write that down.” Matsui replaced the drab dorm lamps with the mod light of a movie projector. The compact machine rests on her desk, poised to illuminate the opposite wall, blank except for a clothesline of scattered photographs. Matsui also mounted two gilded wood carvings, trinkets from the pair’s trip to Bangkok. “We live in the Quad. We have to entice our friends somehow,” Matsui joked. “So we used...

Author: By Britt Caputo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: So Sexy, Dorm Room Style | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...most of their fifty-fifty chances and connected on most of their passes, but couldn’t capitalize. The Crimson defense wouldn’t let them get a decent shot off on Harvard goalie Ryan Johnson. When Princeton did take a shot at the goal from point-blank range with 31 minutes to go in the first half, Harvard answered quickly, bringing the ball downfield. Senior Anthony Tornaritis nearly scored when his hard shot bounced off the shoulder of a Princeton defender and ricocheted just wide of the post. Just minutes into the second half, Tornaritis...

Author: By Bari M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tie with Princeton Leaves Crimson Winless in October | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

DIED. JEAN-MICHEL FOLON, 71, commercial artist whose humanistic, whimsical designs appeared in galleries, opera houses and subway stations around the world; in Monaco. In much of Folon's work, which included posters for UNICEF and covers for TIME and other magazines, his blank-faced Everyman, often dwarfed by modern structures, caricatured the chaos of urban life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 31, 2005 | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

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