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Brazil's top football magazine, Placar, did its own research, and came out with a Romario goal tally about 100 short of the 999 claimed by the striker himself. That forced Romario to admit that not all the 999 goals were scored in first-class games. In the U.S. or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil Braces for a (Bogus) Soccer Milestone | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

The film chronicles an illegal battle to the death between ten women and men who have been given death sentences in countries around the world. Sent to a remote island by a cunning producer, the prisoners are ordered to kill one another until only one is left—and...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Stone Cold' Looks To Future | 4/27/2007 | See Source »

Imagine a world leader - not just any leader, but a veteran forced to make tough choices about big questions on the economy and Iraq, and to spend close to a decade in office living with the consequences of those choices. Then picture that leader strolling, unannounced and without a visible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Popularity | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

It's not always salubrious for the actors who play the nasties. Anthony Hopkins, who, as Hannibal Lecter, was voted the No. 1 all-time villain in an American Film Institute poll (and who is currently on screens as a cunning wife murderer in Fracture), acknowledges that "audiences are drawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Villains: So Bad They're Good | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Boris Yeltsin, 1931-2007 --> "But no, I don't recall anything heroic about him, because there has never been any heroism. Not even when he climbed that tank in Moscow in August 1991 to thwart the hard-liners' putsch. There has been an enormous and stunning political intuition and cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yeltsin: Hero or Opportunist? | 4/23/2007 | See Source »

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