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...cartoon, not on august hard covers. He also slipped a Mickey to the image of the serious fiction writer, showing a brisk contempt for the elevated anguish of creating literature. In just five years, between 1947 and 1952, he served up seven novels: I, the Jury; My Gun Is Quick; Vengeance Is Mine!; One Lonely Night; The Big Kill; Kiss Me, Deadly; and the non-Hammer story The Long Wait. (The six Hammers are collected in two volumes of The Mike Hammer Collection.) By the mid-50s, those seven titles were among the ten all-time best-sellers. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...apart from the rest, he was definitely of indigenous ancestry. Don Saúl and Don Celso were joking like they do all day long, when Don Ruben came back with a group of people who had gone over to watch him work. One of the men, Carlos, had a gun sticking out of the seat of his pants. Later, I found out that Carlos was involved in shipping cocaine into the United States.Macho as he was with his gun, Carlos started making fun of Don Ruben for the job he was doing, comparing him to a little kid with...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset, | Title: Making an Honest Living | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...ignored. Democracy is not a coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...ignored. Democracy is not a coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid The cover picture of al-Zarqawi with a red X on his face was insensitive and frankly revolting. To revel in the death of a fellow human being, no matter how hateful to you his actions may have been, is no way to encourage the cessation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eton Reinvents Itself | 7/11/2006 | See Source »

...house. She has moved six times in the past year. "If I see a strange man in my neighborhood more than three times in a week, I know it's time to move," she says. She used to carry her AK-47 to work but was worried that the gun's silhouette under her burqa betrayed her identity. Now her Smith & Wesson pistol--a gift from coalition forces--is her only source of protection. "I want to stay and do my job," she says. "But I have an 8-year-old daughter. If the government can't protect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deadly Notes In The Night | 7/5/2006 | See Source »

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