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...done a statistical breakdown of the results, so we know, for example, that Shakespeare is the most-represented author (followed by Faulkner, who ties with Henry James; they're followed by a five-way tie, which you can read about for yourself). But I'm more interested in the dark horses, the statistical outliers, which lay bare the secret fetishes and perversions of the literati. Douglas Coupland puts Capote's unfinished Answered Prayers at number one, blowing right by Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, too. Jonathan Franzen begins straight up the middle, with The Brothers Karamazov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

...Glendale Police Chief Richard Black, says Shawn was riding his bike home from friends when he was stopped by a police officer at 11:23 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. He was wearing dark clothes and had no lights. The officer asked him where he was going, he was going home to his "father" and used the named Shawn Devlin. "Shawn did not respond to initial questions, so the officer asked him to get off his bike." He was about a mile to mile-and-a-half from Devlin?s home, and the police officer - it appears from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The St. Louis Kidnappings: A Missed Opportunity | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

Back in December 2000, if you had asked the then dark-haired President-elect to assess his predecessors, George W. Bush might have ranked Bill Clinton down around, oh, say, 42 out of 42. The President's friends say he has a lot more respect for Clinton now having seen what the ups and downs of the office are like. And this White House can only envy the final trajectory of Clinton's presidency--in a trough with two years to go and then celebrated as he ran up surpluses and pulled all-nighters negotiating Middle East peace. President Ronald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking For The Restart Button | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...moment that Henry Luce, TIME's co-founder, wrote his great essay "The American Century," the world was looking very dark. It was 1941, before the U.S. entered World War II, and Luce was trying to inspire Americans with the resolve and confidence to take up the great battles of the day. Luce was passionate about America's role in the world and about the American ideals of freedom and equal opportunity, but he was also passionate about the hopes and dreams of another great nation--China. The son of missionaries in China, Luce came to school in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chinese Challenge | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

...abundantly clear is the camera's singular ability to both mirror life and morph it, expanding our perceptions in the process. As curator Crombie says, "photography is a slippery business. It kind of slips between truth and fiction." And "Light Sensitive" allows us to bask in its many deep, dark reflections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Reflections | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

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