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...assured and preposterously unknowing persona - the hip-hopeless Ali G., for example - then embarrassing real people by asking inane questions and making rude observations. A riff on the Michael Moore style of confrontation, it's a tactic I'm usually not crazy about, since anyone can seem a fool when he's not allowed in on the joke. As Moore once made me uneasily sympathetic to (or feel pity for) General Motors chairman Roger Smith, so Ali G. nudged me to the side of the politicians and aged authors who were the butts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Borat Takes Toronto | 9/13/2006 | See Source »

...Casta?o was a swift, violent man, built like a scrappy welterweight fighter, and you'd be a fool to take him straight on. I met him once, in 2000, and it was the strangest assignment I've ever done. Not dangerous, as I had expected, but strange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting the Most Dangerous Man in Colombia | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...neighboring Serbia. "When I hear people talk on the news and in the cafes, I get the feeling that they're just about to jump at each other's throats," says Mirjana Topic, a student from the Bosnian Serb capital of Banja Luka. "All it would take is some fool's call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling? | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

...parties participating in this contract is shown not to be in their right mind, the entire agreement is automatically nullified.'" When Chico demurs, Groucho soothingly replies, "It's all right, that's in every contract. That's what they call a 'sanity clause'." Chico laughs derisively. "You can't fool me!" he snorts. "There ain't no Sanity Clause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spanking Stars Who Misbehave | 8/24/2006 | See Source »

...think Mr. T was just talk? This fall, the A-Team star and born-again Christian acts on his tagline with a new reality show on TV Land called--what else?--I Pity the Fool. Turns out he pities the fools so much that he'll help them change their lives, applying his moral "rules for fools" to hapless willing subjects on each episode. Mr. T isn't the only 1980s TV personality using retro-star status to spread his gospel. Here are four more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Pity The Fools | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

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