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...Savage Garden-blasting boombox, and in the other, he totes a pink bag emblazoned with the faces of every classic Disney princess. We try, unsuccessfully, to stifle our giggles, at which he smiles toothlessly and moves on. But in moments, he is back, offering Danny a $100 American Express gift card. Danny asks if it costs $100, to which the man replies, no, it's $10. Danny says he'll take it for free, and the man agrees, asking instead for a small coffee. Danny obliges. Upon returning to our table, Danny reports that the man's name...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna | Title: Five People I Met in New York | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

...March, the McCanns won a $1.1 million libel suit against Express Newspapers, whose British tabloid titles include the Daily Star and the Daily Express, after the newspapers ran outlandish articles with headlines such as "Find the Body or McCanns Will Escape" and "Syringe that 'Knocked Out Maddie' Found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Case Closed for the McCanns? | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

...world will express outrage at Zimbabweans' fate, and likely draw up stringent economic and diplomatic sanctions. But neither is likely to save Zimbabweans from their government - and that is proof of the end of an era. In 1999, the U.N. launched successful military interventions to stem bloodshed in Kosovo, East Timor and Sierra Leone. That was in keeping with a declaration the year before by then U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan hailing a "new century of human rights." "No government has the right to hide behind national sovereignty in order to violate the human rights or fundamental freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson of Zimbabwe's 'Election' | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...cultural disconnect between marijuana (the illegal drug) and pot (that stuff that lots of regular people consume) is the comic fulcrum of Pineapple Express, in which a process server (Seth Rogen) and his pot dealer (James Franco) earn the ire of risibly bloodthirsty marijuana kingpins. Their escape is hampered, of course, by the fact that they're stoned. It's a high action comedy. Literally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pot: Now Starring in Your Favorite Movie | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...first, nevertheless did twice as well at the box office. And while the presence of (legal) tobacco cigarettes in films has become a cause célèbre among public-health advocates, there's not a lot of protest that putting pot in movies, even ones as silly as Pineapple Express, glamorizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pot: Now Starring in Your Favorite Movie | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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