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...sense of skepticism and plunges a shank into it. The drama knows how to build and maintain suspense, and nowhere is that better embodied than in star Wentworth Miller--an inmate with his escape plan tattooed in code on his torso--who after 13 episodes seemed tense enough to crack walnuts behind his ears. With the titular breakout under way on the show (it returns in March to resolve its cliffhanger ending), it's unclear where it can go in a second season. But for now I'll follow wherever Miller's tattoo leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 2005: Television | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

...game plan, it seems, will be to ramp up the raunch: he aims to broadcast a woman having late-night phone sex with a listener on one of his channels, and he?s talking about airing a parody of the ABC show The View, called Crack ?Ho View and featuring drug addicts discussing politics. The risk with getting more outrageous: that Stern turns off more listeners than he lures. As he closes in on his mid-50s, moreover, no one knows if the young guys who form his core audience will stay loyal, especially since there are so many other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howard Stern: The $500 Million Man | 12/16/2005 | See Source »

...TIME: Western analysts did not expect President Hu Jintao to pay so much attention to the Communist Party, or crack down on the media - or to see so much nationalist sentiment surface. The West has a certain unease and wariness about China's leaders. LEE: They are communist by doctrine. I don't believe they are the same old communists as they used to be, but the thought processes, the dialectical, secretive way in which they form and frame their policies [still exist]. Their main preoccupations are stability, the continuation of their rule over China, and economic growth. Without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lee Kuan Yew Reflects | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...could not make out what the words were," Beshears told TIME. But shortly after that he heard five or six shots. "It was crack-crack, then crack-crack-crack-crack," he says. His Air Force training and experience as a hunter led him to believe it was a .9 mm-caliber handgun. "It didn't take a second for me to realize it was gunfire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "My Husband's Dead, Isn't He?" | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...hopeless.”* * *Donato had sworn to himself that if he ever made it to Contestants’ Row, he wouldn’t one-dollar-up anybody. He just wasn’t a one-dollar-up kind of guy. But in his second crack at The Item Up For Bid, a set of lamps and some eye drops, he is one-dollar-upped by contestant Elizabeth, who goes on to play for a new white Cadillac.Donato glares at her for an instant, then drops his head and claps. There is still time, he tells himself?...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE PRICE IS WRONG, EDWARD | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

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