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Anything short of execution is excusable. "I didn't kill him," he says after one encounter. "All I did was shoot him in the leg a little bit." (In Hammer's world, that's a towel slap.) Sometimes he imagines the awful-delicious retribution. "If anything happened to Velda I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

. She is also the subject of many of the portraits he made during their relationship. But what secures Maar's place in the history of 20th century art is the meticulous attention she paid to the execution of one of its greatest works. Throughout May and June of 1937, exploiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Woman Behind Picasso | 7/3/2006 | See Source »

One of those rules was that a prisoner's medical information could be provided to interrogators to help guide them to the prisoner's "emotional and physical strengths and weaknesses" (in Rumsfeld's own words) in the torture process. At an interrogation center called Camp Na'ma, where the unofficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Doctors Got Into the Torture Business | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

Kerry gave an eloquent speech to a group of left-liberal activists on the day of Bush's Baghdad trip. "It is not enough to argue with the logistics [of the war] ... or the manner of the conflict's execution or the failures of competence, as great as they are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Is (Still) Winning the War at Home | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

September: Beheads U.S. hostage and contractor Eugene Armstrong. The execution, like others, is posted on the Internet

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Insurgent's Life | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

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