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...Robertson really leg-press 2,000 lbs.? When he was 72? Even though that's nearly 700 lbs. more than some college-record holders can handle without rupturing blood vessels in their eyeballs? The reverend is standing firm on the claim, first made in a promo for his protein shake, although he added last week that he "did it one time, one rep" and moved the ton only a few inches. He also revealed why he got into leg pressing: bad knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 19, 2006 | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...Agency for International Development official/diplomat Lawrence Foley shot to death in home in Amman, Jordan; police arrest three men who claim they were recruited, armed and paid by Zarqawi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Insurgent's Life | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...Lefty (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) that have been a long-standing feature of the show. These figures are present, but worked into a feckless and meandering story, which features "A Dangerous Lady" (Virginia Madsen) in a white trenchcoat, who is actually the Angel of Death, come to claim "The Axeman" (Tommy Lee Jones), who is present to administer the coup de grace to the program. There are a number of subplots in the film, in the best of which Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin play singing sisters, once promising, now more than a little forlorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prairie Home Miscalculation | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

Jackson’s name has been floated as a possible candidate for Harvard’s next president, which could give her another claim to firsts—she would be the first woman and the first black person to lead the school...

Author: By Bari M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nine Awarded Honorary Degrees | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

...They greet his sardonic understatement with appreciative howls. The speech starts with a warm celebration of the site?s achievements (including the somewhat dubious claim that Jon Tester owes his primary Senate victory in Montana to them and not to his opponent?s zipper problem) and then becomes self-congratulatory, boasting about the insurgent primary challenge to Joe Lieberman, where the incumbent now leads by only 55-40. The message of these triumphs? That the ?riffraff? has triumphed over the elite. It?s all very empowering, though the speech?s crescendo is about how the liberal blogosphere propelled Stephen Colbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ambitious Pols Make Their Pilgrimage to Yearly Kos | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

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