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...were discussing the weather. But despite the unsettling indifference of its tone, Cobo's confession - of which a video has been obtained by TIME - offers some extraordinary insights into how the cartels have grown into a formidable threat to the Mexican government, outwitting and outgunning the armed forces in great swathes of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Mexican Narco Foot-Soldier | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...early Atomic Age. When the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. both had The Bomb, what was the point in pretense or courtesy? Pinter's quietly murderous insolence was the theatrical equivalent to Nikita Khrushchev's shoe-banging at the United Nations. Good manners were the creamy lie the great powers poured on the toxic gruel of their realpolitik. The only counteroffensive was to write plays in which people misbehaved, tortured each other; for the postwar generation, writing what the Cambridge Review called his "skull-beneath-the-skin" plays, he was the Pinter of Our Discontent. Back then, his works were taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

...Though it was not his final performance (he did Beckett's monologue Krapp's Last Tape from a motorized wheelchair at the Royal Court in 2006), the Nobel speech was the last great play of a man who knew the value of silence, the importance of speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

...Nicholas becomes famous for performing great miracles. Once he saves a ship from a terrible storm by calming the waves. Another time, he flies through the air to return a kidnapped boy. And most impressive of all, he discovers a triple homicide and brings the victims - three children who had been chopped into bits and stored in pickle jars - back to life. Compared to this, making an Xbox by hand is probably child's play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Claus | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

...last place you need ideology is transportation. LaHood has a great reputation and track record of working across party lines. It's very encouraging." - Roger Cohen, president of the Regional Airline Association in Washington, D.C., Bloomberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation Secretary: Ray LaHood | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

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