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...Silverman was just seven years out of Harvard when he became the president of the team known then as the Devil Rays. In the team’s decade in the Major Leagues, Tampa Bay had never had a winning season and had finished dead last in the American League East all but once...

Author: By William N. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: From Sox Nation to Rays Country | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Election Night in the U.S., the comedian had put the presidential seal on his growing popularity. A Japanese reality show called "Devil's Contract," which helps Japanese celebrities realize their dreams, aired an episode in which they had sent Notchi to the United States to try to meet the then-senator and have him sign a contract endorsing the impersonation. If Notchi failed, he promised he would fly to Arizona to deliver a pro-Obama speech in front of John McCain's supporters. "I was fully prepared to do it and have stones thrown at me," Notchi said later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost Famous: Japan's Obama Impersonator | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...been busy times ever since. After Obama's election, Notchi accosted an unsuspecting Prime Minister Taro Aso for another episode of "Devil's Contract" at a shopping arcade in Tokyo to show him the photo he had taken with the President-Elect in St. Louis. In fact, today nearly all of Notchi's comedic bookings come from this new gig, and he hopes the work will keep coming. "I will be Obama for the next four years," he says, "If lucky, even eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Almost Famous: Japan's Obama Impersonator | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Will Obama Give Up the Bin Laden Ghost Hunt? | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...12th studio album, “That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy,” bears all the signs of an artist aging out of what made him great. Gone for the most part are the brash, irreverent lyrics, bold build-ups, and devil-may-care hooks that characterized earlier hits like “Want to Talk About Me,” “Beer For My Horses,” and “How Do You Like Me Now.” Missing is the sense of reckless misadventure that had even...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toby Keith | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

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