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...racers - young, fit and famous - are not exactly strangers in the nightclubs at resorts across Europe and the Rockies. There's a reason the ski circuit is called the "white circus." Italian ski legend Alberto Tomba (La Bomba) kept the tabloids busy with his evening exploits. "If any of the sponsors didn't know what they were in for, that this is a part of the package, shame on them," says a Nike rep. According to Miller's agent, Miller just inked the biggest deal ever for a skier, with equipment maker Atomic. He also endorses Barilla pasta, among other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel on the Edge | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

...durante 16 a?os en la cadena Univisi?n, aunque a veces su inclinaci?n hacia lo provocativo ha causado asombro. En pantalla ha revelado sus cirug?as pl?sticas, ha mostrado c?mo usar un cond?n, se ha quejado de su menopausia, y ha ?casado? a parejas gay. Este ?ltimo evento provoc? amenazas de bomba y reuni? a 1,500 manifestantes en su estudio de Miami. ?Me he metido en muchos problemas en mi vida por ser brutalmente honesta?, dice Saralegui. ?Hay veces que meto no una, sino las dos patas, pero como Elton John, ?Sigo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cristina Saralegui | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...bleeds on contact. Mordechaï Podchlebnik, the second Jewish survivor of Chelmno, "thanks God for what remains, and that he can forget." But Lanzmann will not let him forget; he even questions the man's fixed smile. Finally, Podchlebnik surrenders to the director's ghoulishness and quietly sobs. Abraham Bomba was once a barber at Treblinka, charged with cutting the hair of women and children in the gas chambers immediately before their execution. Today he cuts hair in Israel, and in a bizarre "photo op," Lanzmann asks Bomba to display his Holocaust tonsorial technique on the customer who now sits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Horror and the Pity SHOAH | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...Manila" bout against Muhammad Ali. DIED. ALEXANDRE BYIDI-AWALA, 69, one of Africa's best-known authors; in Douala, Cameroon. Under the nom de plume Mongo Beti, he wrote novels and essays denouncing colonization and its effects on African societies. Beti's most popular work, The Poor Christ of Bomba, was published in 1956. DIED. NIE MINZHI, 71, longtime activist and founder in 1998 of the outlawed China Democracy Party; after a stroke in a reform camp in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Last year the Chinese government sentenced Nie to one year of labor reform for publishing an open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...moment, at least, it's both, as was clear when McCain climbed back onto his plane and headed down to South Carolina, where he was met at 3 a.m. in an airport hangar by hundreds of college kids and the earsplitting techno sounds of Fat Boy Slim. Bomba dada boomba ba went the music. It nearly parted your hair. Signs were waved and bodies were hopping on the concrete floor. It was as if this father of seven, who spent 5 1/2 years in a prison camp during a war that was over before most of the revelers were born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Moment | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

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