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...sliding glass door of his Los Angeles home office. On the patio, a hula hoop and a portable basketball rim await his children's return from school. Breitbart, 41, dressed on this late-winter day in his standard work uniform of a dirty oxford-cloth shirt and grungy khaki shorts, looks more like a surf bum than one of the most divisive figures in America's political and culture wars. Then his BlackBerry rings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Breitbart: The Web's New Right-Wing Impresario | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...that frustrated members of my family, neighbors, the man selling baguettes in the morning will tell you: "the government works against you, not for you." The Haitian government has tried to show some positive signs of life. There have been several distributions led by Haitian police officers dressed in khaki uniforms with official Haitian patches embroidered on their sleeves. But the presence of the law does not translate into order. One distribution site at the makeshift camps of the Place du Champ de Mars quickly erupted into a frenzy, with government workers throwing bags of rice into the crowds. (Watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Port-au-Prince, the Smell of Death, the Odor of Corruption | 2/6/2010 | See Source »

...civil war ended 17 years ago, but Marquez is again leading groups through these forested hills with guerrilla warfare on her mind. Only now, those following her are Salvadoran students and American and European leftists stepping gingerly in their Reeboks and khaki shorts, and stopping frequently to drink bottled water. Welcome to El Salvador's new guerrilla-tourism industry. (See pictures of Colombia's guerrilla army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guerrilla Tourism Helps El Salvador Heal | 11/18/2009 | See Source »

Conflict elsewhere in the country was inflected in other collections. Some of the loudest cheers were raised for both the subtlest and unabashed tributes to the Pakistan army. Few items received as much attention as young designer Feeha Jamshed's dirty-green khaki (the army's favorite color) dress. As the model twirled on the start of the ramp, she swung open the lower half of the dress to reveal a lengthy slit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Week Comes to Pakistan Amid Mayhem | 11/11/2009 | See Source »

...Outside the 8-foot-tall perimeter walls, the army's Lahore corps had deployed an imposing presence. Two khaki-painted tanks rumbled in the shade of towering green trees. Over a dozen large army trucks were parked in a row as the soldiers they carried patrolled the streets, replete in combat gear and bristling with weaponry. Paramilitary troops and police commandos had also been deployed to scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coordinated Attacks Unleashed on Lahore | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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