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...scar for the rest of their lives. "It's embarrassing to me, my family, the city of Tampa, everyone involved," he says of playing for the '76 Buccaneers. "It's a glum, glum feeling, I mean, just an empty feeling." Last week Wood got a call from his brother, who said he just saw the Bucs named the worst NFL team in history on some television program. (Thanks, bro.) "How do you think that made me feel?" Wood asks. "It's hard to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Can Detroit Go Winless in Today's NFL? | 12/28/2008 | See Source »

...seven men as they cruised around town in a pair of bulky SUVs. Police allege the beauty queen's boyfriend, Orlando Garcia Urquiza, who was in the cruiser with her, is a high-ranking member of the Juarez Cartel, which controls smuggling into west Texas. Garcia's brother Ricardo was identified as the cartel's operational commander when he was arrested three years ago. Police also allege that Zuniga made trips to Colombia this year that were unconnected to her work as a model. The beauty queen's father denied that his daughter was involved in any illegal activity, telling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busted! Taking Down Miss Hispanic America | 12/27/2008 | See Source »

Bush, George W. •pardon given to son of major contributor to Republican party by is taken back the next day by •refusal of thrower of shoe at to ever apologize to, even - as his brother says - "if they cut him into small pieces" •surge in popularity of model of shoe thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...their identities. "There was Franco, Tarzan, Texas, and Zorro," he said. "He saw a book with names of dozens of police under the unit's payroll, he said, including officers from many nearby towns and federal agents stationed there. The corrupt police were also given aliases, including Papa and Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Mexican Narco Foot-Soldier | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...incoherence in the manner of Samuel Beckett" - unintentional high praise indeed. It's the tale of an old homeless man, Jenkins (played onstage and in the excellent 1963 film version by Donald Pleasance), who is brought to the home of the simple-minded Aston (Robert Shaw) and his conniving brother Mick (Alan Bates). Jenkins begins as the ratty interloper but becomes sympathetic by default as the brothers play their mind games. The plot fits the contours of a standard nightmare: being invited into a place where you are misled and mistreated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

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