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Three-time Stanley Cup champion Brendan Shanahan, the NHL's active goal-scoring leader, argued that while NHL players are often accused of being boring and Canadian, many are not even Canadian. I asked Shanahan for an exciting fact about himself, and he thought for a moment. "I have a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Hockey (and Me) One More Shot | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Honestly, I was so nervous and excited I threw up and pooped my shorts (quite a trick, as I was lying on my stomach at the time). But hockey'll do that to you. It takes the mild-mannered and turns them into screaming soldiers of shinny. With its speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Friend of the Hockey Court | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Your book readings aren't normal book readings. They're more like concerts or events. Why do you do all of this wacky stuff? About seven years ago I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

What do Italians make of Silvio Berlusconi? Easy. Most think: "He's one of us." He loves his family, his football, his friends, his food. And his money, of course. He praises the church in the morning, family values in the afternoon and hangs around with young women at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silvio Berlusconi: An Italian Mirror | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

The old lefty folk community embraced Dylan even as he quickly surpassed Guthrie, writing his own music to go with his brilliant lyrics to protest the atrocities of the 1960s, songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." But four-chord, straight-ahead folk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan: Time For One More Change? | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

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