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Picking a favorite detail is an arbitrary exercise, but I’ll go ahead and choose “The coca leaf is slightly damp / Sproutin’ in the back yard next to Grand Duke tomato plants.” Where other rappers retell the same gangsta story, Ghostface writes...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ghostface Killah | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

...TRMPAC's alleged illegal maneuvers. Perry helped Ceverha pay his legal fees and, as a member of a state pension board, Ceverha was obliged to report the gift. The Texas Ethics Commission, to the chagrin of several Texas newspaper editorial pages, has said Ceverha does not need to detail the exact amount of the check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frontrunner: Wallace Launches Bid for DeLay?s Seat | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...nicely calibrated blend of multilateral fence mending and principled criticism. At home, she toned down the free-market rhetoric that made voters uneasy in last year's poll. And she has won the admiration of party members and rivals alike for her consensual management style and grasp of detail. "I'm convinced that she is really the right person for Germany," Henning Kagermann, ceo of SAP, the software giant, tells Time. "She's very pragmatic, she can listen, and she is not always talking about these grand visions but about small executable steps. We are very comfortable with her style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of Smiles | 4/1/2006 | See Source »

Securing phony paperwork was part of the scheme, and corporate plant managers often knew in detail how the illegals got their papers. This was apparent in the following exchange between the undercover federal agent arranging for illegals and the manager of a Tyson facility in Glen Allen, Va. The manager is talking about a go-between named Amador who had delivered workers in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Illegal Aliens: Who Left the Door Open? | 3/30/2006 | See Source »

...Witness statements by his teenage daughters Mariam and Maria, aged 13 and 14, on the night of his arrest appear to detail his failures as a parent. "He behaves badly with us and we were threatened and disgraced by him. He has no job and has never given me a stitch of clothing or a crust of bread. Just his name as a father," said his 13-year-old daughter Mariam in a statement signed with her inky fingerprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abdul Rahman's Family Values | 3/29/2006 | See Source »

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