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...related incidents continues to rise. It seems no one is listening. The stories contained, though, are quite shocking. One man who crashed his car onto the side of the road after suffering an epileptic seizure was tased repeatedly for struggling with an officer pulling him from his vehicle. Another gentleman was tased when he was mistaken for a drunk driver by the side of the road, when in fact he had simply become hypoglycemic. The list goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Tasers Deadly? | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...always start out by being a gentleman. I only use intimidation and fear when I absolutely have to." - on his tough-guy reputation (The New Yorker, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthony Pellicano | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

...ticket promises to shake up the status quo and bring real change. The other features an older gentleman from the South and a young woman from Alaska. Sound familiar? A combination of coincidental similarities and purposeful parody have resulted in some serious parallels between this year’s U.S. and UC campaigns. Charles T. James ’09-’10 and Max H. Y. Wong ’10 are focusing on bringing real change to Washing— Oh, sorry, we mean the UC. “You usually see the same thing: a ticket...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Less Prominent Presidential Pairs | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...Wayne, the tiny mixtape-making, cough-syrup-swilling stream-of-consciousness New Orleans rapper whose Tha Carter III truly was one of the best albums of the year. His competition in Grammys' glamour category comes from Coldplay's slightly overhyped Viva La Vida, Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's elegant Raising Sand and Radiohead's record-industry death knell In Rainbows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grammy Nods: Bad Show, Decent Nominees | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...book raises is how much inhumanity is justified in the cultivation of a talent--especially in an age when (as Naipaul is shrewd enough to realize) writers are judged on the basis of their personality more than their art. Even as he turned himself into a bespoke English gentleman, after all, while Pat became the obedient and self-denying Indian wife of legend, Naipaul's strength lay not just in the clarity of his observations but in the passion--the grief and terror and rage--that trembled just beneath them. When Pat finally died, in 1996, French tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V.S. Naipaul's Other Life | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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