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The foreign ventures usually end up as stories in the magazine, along with reminiscences of wartime derring-do, eyewitness combat reports and ratings of the latest weapons. (Like publishers sending their books to a magazine for review, gun manufacturers ship their latest products to Soldier of Fortune editors, who test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Quiche Eaters, Read No Further | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Before she knew it, Willig had found a literary agent through a friend, and inked a book deal with Dutton. Now, hard at work on The Masque of the Black Tulip—in which two supporting characters from Carnation engage in a little romantic derring-do of their own?...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOK ENDS: Grad Student Grabs Readers With Bodice-Ripper | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

The big battle is about to begin--good guys on one side, bad guys on the other. They advance and clash, executing kung-furious feats of acrobatic derring-do. It's like a Hong Kong action film, but every take has to be perfect. It's being done live, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bigger Than Vegas | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

And that is the happy part of the movie. Things get darker as a real dirty truck bomb goes off in the city's center. There is far more devastation than the drill projected. The response is chaotic: workers are trapped in burning offices as rescue crews retreat from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Trouble Is On the Air | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

Democrats today could use an infusion of Clinton’s imagination and political derring-do. For example, it is hypocritical for Democratic politicians, many of whom had the good fortune of attending private schools, to deny that same opportunity to inner-city youths by dogmatically opposing vouchers. That opposition...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, | Title: How Not to Sell Out | 11/9/2004 | See Source »

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