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Dates: during 2000-2009
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I didn't feel part of a vanguard, or more adult for "getting" Lenny. I just thought the guy was funny. Similarly, I found the breadth and pungency of his stuff startling but not really shocking. So far as I recall, it didn't upset other members of my middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tribute to Lenny Bruce | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

But while politicians debate exactly how to deploy the devices, police and prosecutors are embracing them as a revolutionary tool. And in at least 19 states, judges have admitted the data as evidence in criminal trials. In Arizona, a Roman Catholic bishop was convicted in a hit-and-run accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Psst, Your Car is Watching You | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

"He's Jewish on his manager's side"--that's the line. People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Martin Short | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...showcase theirs on the evening news. As such unabashed displays continue, my own beliefs are cemented: Religion only segments and consumes those that don’t know any better. Take Growing in Faith; its members overwhelmingly consist of Latin American immigrants who left an extremely strict strand of Catholicism in countries like El Salvador or Bolivia. De Jesús offers them something new—Catholicism without original sin. Suddenly, Catholic guilt melts away and they have a voice, an opinion. Burning a Bible or a Torah may certainly catch my attention; I’ll even tolerate...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, | Title: Religion on the Street | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

Celebrity DUIs are as common on one stretch of Malibu, Calif., highway as blonds in convertibles. But when L.A. sheriffs arrested MEL GIBSON for driving at nearly twice the legal speed--with a blood-alcohol level of .12% (.08% is the state limit)--the A-lister with an image as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 7, 2006 | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

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