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...verbal altercation took place Saturday at France's annual farmers' congress, where the president was rebuffed during a round of glad-handing by an older man, who said, "Don't touch me, you make me dirty." Visibly piqued, Sarkozy twice ordered the man to "bugger off," the second time adding the insult usually reserved for locker rooms and school yards. Though the incident took only seconds, the exchange was immortalized on camera and uploaded to the web site of French daily Le Parisien, where it had been viewed nearly a million times by Monday morning. Against a background of sliding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Riling France's President | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...first published details of the mission. He expressed grave concerns about the army's handling of the incident and other Special Air Service Regiment patrols in Afghanistan. He said after the patrol he had been pressured to write a report which reflected badly on the patrol commander. "That poor bugger the patrol commander has been through hell and back," he said at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soldier's Suicide | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...cosmic pull of a black hole. In a salon-style gallery designed for the appreciation of modern masters, the aesthetic relationship between Aboriginal painting and 20th century abstraction has never seemed closer. Though as Thomas, the former stockman from Turkey Creek, reportedly said of Rothko, "Who's that bugger that paints like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Both Sides Now | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...Ceduna, the clean coastal town famous for its oysters, is home to the westernmost of the state's four roadblocks. "He's the bad bugger," says Provis' offsider, Brian "Flash" Hoffrichter, 63, brandishing a dried specimen of the Mediterranean variety (Ceratitis capitata), which is not much bigger than a grain of sand. A gruesome color photograph on the wall shows the damage its maggots can inflict on oranges. "Doesn't look real nice, does it?" Hoffrichter says. "Little things can do big damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Highway Pest Police | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...GREATER PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AMONG ABORIGINES SEEMS TO HAVE WON YOU MORE CRITICS INSIDE YOUR PARTY THAN OUTSIDE IT. It's interesting. But on domestic violence, for example, my attitude is that you can spend billions on it and give every offender a counselor, but that will mean sweet bugger all until that person decides to stop offending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Warren Mundine | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

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