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...laughs from the asides as much as the punch lines. And each bit was populated with two, three, many characters. It was like a classic sketch on Your Show of Shows, except that Lenny played all the parts: Sid Caesar's, Carl Reiner's, Howie Morris' and Imogene Coca's. He wasn't a great mimic ? all the voices had his nasal Long Island timbre ? but he was a confident actor. And since each routine tended to evolve as he performed it, Lenny was less a sick comic than a Method...

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

...about how his race might affect how he campaigns, he told TIME, "In Iraq the bullets don't pierce different racial groups differently." Another Harvard Law School grad, Deval Patrick, who is running for Governor of Massachusetts, has played up his background as a corporate executive at Texaco and Coca-Cola. "A guy came up to me after a speech and said, 'I expected Jesse Jackson, and I got Colin Powell,'" Patrick said. Kweisi Mfume, who hopes to enter the Senate from Maryland but faces a tough primary opponent, is the exception to those men, touting his civil rights background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes the New Wave of Barack Obamas | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

Whodunit? Federal prosecutors say they have videotape of a secretary at Coca-Cola, Joya Williams, sneaking classified materials from the company's Atlanta headquarters in her handbag. Co-conspirators Ibrahim Dimson and Edmund Duhaney allegedly helped her try to sell what she had to Pepsi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can't Beat The Real Thing | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

What secrets were for sale? The recipes for some Coca-Cola products and details of future promotions (asking price for a selection of this information: $15,000). There was also a sample of a new beverage not yet on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can't Beat The Real Thing | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

What about the ultimate Coca-Cola secret: Does its recipe really contain cocaine? That burning question can't be answered definitively, and the recipe for Classic Coke wasn't stolen. Coke officials deny the drug was ever an ingredient. But experts, including a former U.S. drug czar, have long said the coca plant--cocaine's source--once flavored Coke, which might explain why it was sold early on as a "brain tonic." Maybe the thieves should have had a drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Can't Beat The Real Thing | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

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