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...most backs would be lucky to get one. "You're like, 'Man, how'd he do that?'" says Baltimore Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan, whose team beat the Chargers 16-13 in October and could face them again in the AFC title game. "It's like landing a body blow. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Back Ever | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...Negroponte leaves the DNI to become Condoleezza Rice's deputy at the State Department, what is in doubt is just how how much he has left undone and how much of a blow another presidentially ordered change at the top will be for a $44 billion intelligence community still in turmoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Does Negroponte Leave Intelligence? | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...board and 47 residents on the ground. In 2006 there were at least 15 aircraft accidents in Indonesia, resulting in 14 fatalities. One foreign resident tells of an Adam Air flight last year from Jakarta to Lombok which left with his luggage but not him. "That's how terrorists blow up planes," he notes, asking not to be identified. "But [the airline] didn't even seem to care." Gugi Saputra, commercial director for Adam Air, says the airline would have tried to contact the passenger and that a porter may have removed the wrong bags by mistake. "We would never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Perilous Skies | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Shi'a Lynch Mob | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...corps of Confetti Dispersal Engineers on New Year's Eve, as we had once before, on the so-called millennium of 1999-2000. We joined our chers amis Davie Lerner, Giacomo Ghiozzi, Victor Nelson and Gilbert Ireland, all CDEs of many consecutive years' standing. None of us had to blow up the 20,000 balloons due to be given out to the crowd; that task went to other people with more capacious lung power ... no, actually they use pumps. But we were on duty for nearly eight hours, as the elves in Father Time's workshop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Confetti New Year's | 1/2/2007 | See Source »

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