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...himself as he putters around the family meatpacking business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional run, no less, and he was dating waitresses. We couldn't imagine what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private History | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...putters around the family meat packing business. When Alice finally decides she's had enough and uses her mother's home as the halfway house to a formal separation, Maj calls and drops a bomb: the family had been shocked that someone as refined as Alice had chosen Charlie in the first place. "[H]e was a 31-year-old wastrel, making that preposterous congressional run, no less, and he was dating waitresses. We couldn't imagine what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klein on the Fictional Laura Bush | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...that's the nature of this year's race. The Republican nominee, John McCain, is in a battle for the last undecided voters, no more than 10 percent of the electorate, according to polls. And while they haven't yet chosen between McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, they've made up their minds on Bush. They don't like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush in a Box, But One Dem Welcome | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...there was a breach in security - the roadside should have been checked out by a security detail long before the prime minister passed by. The grassy hill is topped by a neon sign depicting Pakistan's founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, though it was unlikely that it was chosen for symbolic value, rather for line of sight. Nevertheless, the attack was apparently an amateur attempt, notable as much for incompetence as for the constant threat it suggests Pakistan's leaders are under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Growing Chain of Violence | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...Richter scale of Internet search energy, Republican presidential candidate John McCain's announcement on Friday that he had chosen Sarah Palin, the current governor of Alaska, as his running mate measured a magnitude 10. If you compare the number of searches for "John McCain," "Barack Obama" or "Joe Biden" with those for "Sarah Palin," there's no contest. In just two days, the number of U.S. Internet searches for "Sarah Palin" reached a peak greater than any other political personality in the past three years. In the week ending Aug. 30, 2008, searches for Governor Palin were almost four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Sarah Palin's 'Hot Photos' | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

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