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...faze a hard-boiled U.S. gunman but is enough to send this veteran cop into a drunken, downward spiral. He decides to leave the force, only to realize an hour later that he has made a terrible mistake. He comes back, of course, drawn by his guilt over a friend???s murder and eventually finds himself on the money trail of a smiling man whom Mankell sees as the picture of contemporary Swedish capitalism: perfect tan, private helicopters and a pair of homicidal mercenaries hovering in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Novel Mysteries From Old Masters | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...accounts, bankers back with cash the officials who determine where municipal or state funds will be kept. Such dealings look perfectly proper to Kansas City Banker Alex Barket, who asks: "If I contribute to a candidate for Governor, wouldn't it be natural for him to become my friend???and then put some of the state's funds in his friend's bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Disgrace of Campaign Financing | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...Jacqueline Onassis, who was away, escaped service as a dormitory. One group of advisers, led by McNamara, strongly urged a full and immediate explanation. Finally, Ted agreed and the speechwriters?Sorensen, J.F.K.'s wordsmith; David Burke, Ted's administrative assistant; and Milton Gwirtzman, a Washington lawyer and Kennedy friend???began their work. By the time their output was broadcast, of course, much of the country was analyzing the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries of Chappaquiddick | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...this decade, however, guinea pigs acquired a great & good friend???Professor Sewall Wright of the University of Chicago, who looks after & at 8,000 of them. They support an evolutionary hypothesis which Professor Wright has long maintained, to the effect that inbreeding in freaks generates freaks. Eventually descendant freaks may be numerous enough to be considered a normal race. To gain evidence for this thought Professor Wright has inbred his guinea pigs for 30 generations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Guinea Pig Toes | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...returns to see his young son who he has learned is ill. Young son's illness is slight, and between father and son there is more talk about a bicycle, approval of which Mary Boyd has withheld. With Christine turned moral and Mary refusing to marry Boyd's best friend???and Cecily eloping with her architect?the play ends in this manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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