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...either." (As a non-voter for either Bush or Clinton, he's in sync with nearly half of the American electorate.) But he soon has a personal motivation: "These boys killed my dog." Besides, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. And Swagger was born, bred and trained to locate and kill the enemy. Even the enemy within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Holes in a Conspiracy | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

...Consider, for example, the transformation of Brooklyn-bred Rudy into an honorary Texas oil lawyer. From the start of their private-sector days, Giuliani and his associates were intent on joining a law firm in addition to running their consulting business. It made sense: before he was mayor, Giuliani was a senior official in the Reagan-era Justice Department. His subsequent flashy tenure as U.S. attorney in New York launched his political career. As he explained in an interview with a Texas newspaper last year, "About three-quarters of the people in Giuliani Partners are lawyers, and we always wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Rudy Smiling? | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...Born and bred in Hong Kong-his father was a policeman-Tsang rose through the ranks of the colonial civil service, a common career choice for Hong Kongers with plenty of brains but little money. A devout Catholic (like a surprising number of key people in Hong Kong), Tsang has his roots deep in the city. Because of his background as an official in the British administration, for which he received a knighthood, Hong Kong's leftist camp has never fully trusted Tsang as a Beijing loyalist. Indeed, the conventional wisdom is that China's leaders are still feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five More Years | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...another reason to eat bison: doing so is good for the planet. Bison are leaner than cattle because they are still wild animals who range and eat grass; they do not tolerate confinement well, and so they cannot be fattened the way we do cattle, which we have bred to eat rich corn mixtures their entire adult lives. Growing corn to feed cattle costs the nation dearly in terms of pesticide and fertilizer runoff. The pollution and inhumanity of the confinement-feedlot beef system make it one of postwar America's biggest ecological blunders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Buffalo Roam | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Spartan boy is bred to militarism. He's taken from his mother and, as the movie says, is "thrown into a world of unspeakable cruelty" (or, as the English call it, boarding school). Spartans are the tough guys, the bully boys, the warrior class, fighting and dying for other Greeks who may lack their mettle. Leonidas chides the Athenians as "those philosophers and boy-lovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Reasons Why 300 Is a Huge Hit | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

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