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...KORAN BEEN DESECRATED? The U.S. has been investigating allegations of mishandling of the Koran, including the charge by at least one detainee that U.S. personnel threw the holy book in a toilet. As of last week, the inquiry, led by Brigadier General Jay W. Hood, had found five instances in which a guard or interrogator mishandled the Koran-although Hood would not explain exactly how-all but one before January 2003, when explicit rules about the Koran were established. But Hood's team found no credible evidence that one was ever tossed in a toilet. Three incidents were probably deliberate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Going On At Gitmo? | 5/31/2005 | See Source »

...play a gun-toting rapper protecting the hood and rescuing your homies (for PlayStation 2 and Xbox). It makes Grand Theft Auto seem like Pong

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot New Games | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...refugees, for whom the Chinese government was paying 60? bounties. They found one near a garbage dump. "As the shopkeeper fished around in his pocket for some plastic twine, a dirt-covered face scabrous with pellagra that looked about fifty years old shrunk back into the shadows of a hood made from grey sackcloth, like a medieval leper," he writes. The woman, who was in fact only 28, had crossed the border in a final effort to avoid starvation. As a prisoner, she would be sent back to North Korea, to face possible torture or even death in a labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Dictator | 5/14/2005 | See Source »

...wait. We are obliged to swat another effort in the vandalism of the cinematic cemetery, Shane Black's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. This crime-laced comedy, narrated by Robert Downey, Jr., as a two-bit hood turned movie actor, is meant to be a parody of Hollywood action films, especially the ones produced by Joel Silver, who produced here. Running on the fumes of countless bad movies, Black concocts what might work at five mins. as a slam-tribute at a Joel Silver roast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Diary III: Grave Robbing | 5/13/2005 | See Source »

...left the rest area and returned to the highway and almost instantly spotted a fire-engine-red Mini-Cooper with white racing stripes. The entwined red sox were emblazoned on the passenger-side door and, as we passed, we noticed the team's insignia dominant on the front hood. The license plate (Connecticut) read BEATNY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Our Red Sox,' Still? | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

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