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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Baron Cohen, whose first job after graduating from Cambridge University was as a fashion model, deserves credit for pushing further than he did in Borat. He's beyond brazen in his forced marriage of suicide raids on homophobes and the cartoon mockery of rural Southerners - sort of al-Qaeda and Al Capp. But he and Universal (which paid a hefty $42.5 million for rights to the movie and launched a worldwide marketing campaign that brought the pre-release tab to about $100 million) had two hints that things could go wrong. One was the death of Michael Jackson, which spurred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box-Office Weekend: Brüno a One-Day Wonder? | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

USAGE: "A group of well-to-do pensioners who lost their savings in the credit crunch staged an arthritic revenge attack and held their terrified financial adviser to ransom [in] the latest example of what is being dubbed 'silver crime'--the violent backlash of pensioners who feel cheated by the world." --Times of London, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...know that he was shot - that's all. I was not interested in finding out how he was shot, but whoever that was deserved some credit. The most important thing is that he's no more. I would have preferred to bring him here and have a chat with him. I have never seen this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...some of your biggest trading partners. Are you worried about jeopardizing those relationships? I don't think they're so petty-minded. They're the people who encouraged us to defeat terrorism. We followed what [George W.] Bush said. We accomplished what he wanted: eliminate terrorism. They must give credit to us. We fought their war. We showed that you can defeat terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Tamed the Tamil Tigers | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...Honduras in social and military assistance, much of which the State Department put on hold in response to the coup; and in 2005 it signed a five-year, $215 million development grant for the country. Because of the coup, the World Bank has already suspended $270 million in pending credit for Honduras as well as $80 million it had slated for 2010. The U.S. could also withhold trade, but that's harder to do since it entered into CAFTA, a free-trade pact with all of Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Pushes Honduran Foes to Negotiations | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

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