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...full of contradictions. His parents' defiance of Mugabe's regime is partly based on ignorance. Their enemies can be cruel, greedy and bloodthirsty, but also kind and righteous. As the country implodes, Rogers' tough, cynical mother breaks down in the middle of a bungled backstreet deal for a fake passport. Her idea of Zimbabwe, she realizes, is a long way from the daily reality faced by millions of her countrymen, or even, now, herself. "She no longer understood her town ..." writes Rogers, "the town where she had been born 66 years before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe's Home Truths | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...want to hear how every Beatles song (except for those originally mixed only in stereo) sounded on your - or your dad's or granddad's - car radio in the '60s and have a spare $298.98, this is the one for you.(Watch TIME's video "Battle of the Fake Bands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Beatles: Rock Band Save the Music Business? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...cascading down the screen. The color of the gem tells you which fret to hit on your guitar. "If you don't hit it," DeGooyer explained, "you'll hear some dissonance or you won't hear anything at all." (It's a very forgiving game.) (See the top 10 fake bands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Beatles: Rock Band Save the Music Business? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...course, this being the fashion industry, none of these ideas are exactly new. In 1999, 222-year-old Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., licensed its name to an Italian firm, which emblazons it on college-athlete-inspired T-shirts and sweatshirts, complete with fake school crests. National Geographic beat Field & Stream to the punch, launching menswear in 2005. And neither of them is even the most unlikely fashion patron. Kenny Chesney's a designer now, selling his Blue Chair Bay line in three locations in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want To Dress Like Harvard — or Field & Stream? | 9/12/2009 | See Source »

...Born Round you detail all the fake names and disguises you used to avoid detection in restaurants, and yet you seemed to get recognized all the time. Sam Sifton is your successor and his photo is already on the Internet. Do you think he'll be able to eat anonymously at all? It's going to get harder and harder as the years go by because of the advance of technology. It's easier for people to take pictures and it's easier to message them around. There's no way that a critic wouldn't have a deep digital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Bruni, Author and Restaurant Critic | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

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