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...BRUCE WILLIS SUES HIS SCRAPBOOKER. REALLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 14, 2006 | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

Apparently having already given out the obvious jobs of being his driver, chef or manager, BRUCE WILLIS hired a childhood friend to be his personal scrapbooker, organizing treasured photos, videos and memorabilia in exchange for free room and board on the Die Hard star's Los Angeles property. That sounds like a nifty idea--who wants to misplace that vintage Cybill Shepherd dartboard?--unless the friendship takes a turn. Willis is now suing Bruce DiMattia for more than $1 million, claiming his ex-archivist threatened to sell Willis' personal effects and write a tell-all book containing "highly personal, private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 14, 2006 | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...home inventories, especially with mortgage rates higher than last year's levels. KB Home, a national builder, says its cancellation rate shot up to 37% in the second quarter, from 25% a year earlier. "People are making arguably the most significant economic decision in their life," says CEO Bruce Karatz. "They want to feel like they're being smart, and in some markets it's unclear whether it's smart to buy a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boom Is—Is Not!—Over: The Great Real Estate Debate | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is taking flak this week for his use of the term "tar baby" while addressing a group of Iowa Republicans on July 29 in a reference to Boston's troubled Big Dig highway project. Was he offensive in doing so? The head of the NAACP, Bruce Gordon, believes the governor "made a bad choice" in using such a term, the civil-rights leader told the Boston Herald. But Romney has his defenders as well, among them a minister in the Nation of Islam. Romney's spokesman apologized on his behalf, saying the governor simply meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why "Tar Baby" Is Such a Sticky Phrase | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...kidnapped the Israeli corporal and moderates like Haniya who can be potential diplomatic partners for the U.S. "The strategy should be to identify the fissures in a terrorist group and widen those chasms to cause it to explode, to isolate the hard-liners and strengthen the moderates," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp. and the author of the new book Inside Terrorism. "The risk of painting all terrorists with one brush is that you miss those signs, and so you miss those opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Middle East Crisis Isn't Really About Terrorism | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

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