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...body, then filled it in awkwardly with hairless, discolored skin that shouldn't be on a human being. Burn wounds are smoothly hideous, like the skin was turned into peanut butter and then spread in stretched, uneven dollops on the body. Or maybe you come back missing a finger or your face, or the whole or parts of your limbs. Maybe your eyes are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joker One: A Marine's Bloody Iraq Memoir | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

Where were you on March 31st, 2008 at 5 P.M? If you are in the class of 2012 here’s to betting you were locked away in your room, sitting in front of your computer screen, trigger finger eagerly refreshing away while you scoured your g-mail account for one fateful e-mail: your admissions decision...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Our Unofficial Admissions Predictions | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

Pointing the Finger Re "The Scariest Places," Joe Klein succinctly presents the dilemma facing President Obama and his advisers regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan [March 16]. My suggestion is simply put the blame on Israel, then we can all go home. Nachman Kahana, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror in Mumbai | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...again played by Alan Arkin.Mac’s suggestion that Rose quit her day job as a maid and become a different kind of cleaning lady offers both girls a chance to turn their lives around. Through shared triumph over hardship—disposing of everything from a finger to a maggot-infested paper bag—the girls move from insulting one another to forming a substantial and trusting relationship.The film’s premise, inspired by a National Public Radio report on two best friends’ real-life foray into the biohazard removal business, is refreshingly...

Author: By Victoria J. Benjamin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sunshine Cleaning | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...plethora of legally questionable bills caps a messy week of finger pointing as all of Washington tries to harness public anger, score political points and figure out how AIG managed to grant the bonuses even after all the legislation Congress has passed to limit compensation to executives of the companies taxpayers have spent trillions of dollars bailing out. The GOP blamed Democratic ineptitude in the rush to pass too many bailouts; Democrats and Republicans alike said the Treasury Secretary Geithner has been asleep at the wheel; and the Obama Administration tried to refocus attention on the consensus point that Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIG Backlash: Has Congress Flipped Out? | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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