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...rulers of the world's pariah states are usually recognizable personalities. Kim Jong Il with his electrified hairdo, Muammar Gaddafi with his aviator sunglasses, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his penchant for windbreakers. But Burma? No one dictator comes to mind, only a coterie of faceless generals - 12, if one wants to be exact. Last week, in the junta's latest wave of repression, soldiers fired on thousands of peaceful protesters who had dared challenge its iron-fisted rule, killing dozens, according to initial U.N. estimates. But the question remains: Who exactly are the brutal generals behind one of the world...
...rulers of the world's pariah states are usually recognizable personalities. Kim Jong Il with his electrified hairdo, Muammar Gaddafi with his aviator sunglasses, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his penchant for windbreakers. But Burma? No one dictator comes to mind, only a coterie of faceless generals - 12, to be exact. Last week, in the junta's latest wave of repression, soldiers fired on thousands of peaceful protesters who had dared challenge its iron-fisted rule. But the question remains: Who exactly controls Burma, one of the world's most isolated regimes...
...feel invested, the same way movie fans do in Brad and Angelina. "The journey of seeing the same people coming back week on week-you have a relationship with them," says creator Simon Fuller. "You don't know what's going to happen. Sanjaya walks out with his crazy hairdo. It's a living soap opera." Season 6 contestant Chris Sligh called the job of getting the audience to identify with you "mak[ing] David Hasselhoff cry," referring to the Baywatch star tearing up when Hicks won last year's crown. Which brings us to point...
...getting into the wear-and-wash act. Around parts of the Sunbelt, young collegians and high schoolers have begun aping the University of Oklahoma's star linebacker, Brian Bosworth, who has been seen sporting a streak of black on one side of his blond hairdo and an ever changing rainbow effect on the other side. His ultrashort hair, however, sometimes presents problems: the color occasionally refuses to hold. New York University Freshman Paul Nagle prefers to highlight his brown waves with an electric shade of aubergine to complement his camouflage fatigues. He calls the fad a kind of "Disney rebellion...
...books (Surrender the Pink) Now the actress, 50, is on stage each night performing in her first one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. What does she talk about? Her life, of course! From her iconic role as Princess Leia (remember the "bagel braid" hairdo?) in Star Wars to her marriage to singer Paul Simon, her father's affair - and subsequent marriage - to Elizabeth Taylor and her daughter Billie, whose dad, a Hollywood agent, turned out to be gay, almost nothing is off limits for Fisher. TIME's Jeanne McDowell chatted with the ever-forthcoming...