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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enough. Satan decides to visit Moscow, arrives, and shortly thereafter decapitates one of the first people he meets—a man who, like all dutifully atheistic Soviets, refuses to believe in the Dark Lord’s existence. With a supernatural and motley crew that includes a scantily clad witch-maid and an enormous, talking, sarcastic cat named Behemoth, Satan spreads chaos throughout the city, befuddling bureaucrats and toying with the populace’s deepest yearnings for consumer goods. Meanwhile, a character known only as the Master, condemned to live in a mental institution after writing a historical...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...Today, Locke's narrow, dirt paths, stray cats and precariously-leaning buildings conceal a secret: Locke's identity is changing. Today, only 12 of the 80 residents are Chinese, with whites and Latinos having gradually replaced the founding population. On weekends, most visitors are leather-clad bikers who stop in to grab a steak and beer at Al the Wop's, one of Locke's two restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving a Countryside Chinatown | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

...mentioned this to a civilian contractor, William Corke, who disappeared and came back with a bag of T shirts with pictures of scantily clad women and mermaids, bearing the words FANTASY ISLAND, DIEGO GARCIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Diego Garcia | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...chief Pervez Musharraf. Despite a landmark Supreme Court ruling last month that the former premier could not legally be denied a return to his home country, Sharif was bundled out of the Islamabad Airport first class lounge by a phalanx of plainclothes police officers and elite special forces soldiers clad in tight black T-shirts. While the Pakistani government has not yet confirmed his deportation, intelligence officials say he was placed on a plane departing for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "He never even got his passport stamped," says Amjad Malik, a British lawyer who was with Sharif as he negotiated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Musharraf Foe's Aborted Return | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

...airmen guarding the exit spotted a civilian contractor, William L. Corke, who offered to grab some T-shirts. Half an hour later, Corke returned with a bag of shirts with colorful pictures of scantily clad women and mermaids bearing the words, "Fantasy Island, Diego Garcia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise in Concrete | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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