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...While other influential regional players like Saudi Arabia have tried to ease tensions by calling on Hizballah to show restraint, Ahmadinejad's comments have been aimed at raising the temperature. "Those who keep silent are complicit in the Zionist regime's barbarism," he said in a public speech, a jab at the refusal of Arab leaders to cheer on Hizballah. In an address the next day, he said: "The Zionist regime's assault on Lebanon is a violation against the people of the whole region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Stake in the Mideast Crisis | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...there?s any doubt, remember the eyewitness account of Jason Bissey who lives next door to the house where the Duke party occurred: "One guy yelled at her, ?... Thank your grandpa for my cotton shirt?" - a cleverly subtle racist jab from one of America?s best-educated college students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern Discomfort | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...Impressionistic dabs of paint employed by Monet and the Pointillism of Seurat and Signac. Chuck Close became famous for his large-scale portraits, using a grid of abstract pixels to create the larger picture.Smuts’s monochromatic panels recall all this, and also consciously take a jab at the monochromatic paintings of the early minimalists. For Smuts, each tessera is important in its individuality, and its contrast to the whole.The time and care taken by the artists of each tile is evident. Yet, “I don’t entirely understand the appeal of the project...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting Lost in the Digital Wallpaper | 4/22/2006 | See Source »

...people following his every move and trying to pick up famous girls, Skinner acknowledges that he’s bringing it all on himself, nonchalantly replying “I know” to his manager’s dire videophone warnings. The song is just as much a jab at stars who whine about how hard it is to be famous (and the ones who go to rehab clinics for “exhaustion”) as it is at the gossip rags. The video proclaims that he plans to keep making the wrong choices as long...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: The Streets | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

...crippling. He had suffered plenty of trauma as well. "One rib was fractured and healed," says Owsley, "and there is a depression fracture on his forehead and a similar indentation on the left side of the head." None of those fractures were fatal, though, and neither was the spear jab. "The injury looks healed," says Owsley. "It wasn't a weeping abscess." Previous estimates had Kennewick Man's age as 45 to 55 when he died, but Owsley thinks he may have been as young as 38. Nothing in the bones reveals what caused his demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Were the First Americans? | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

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