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...They should be flattened and ground into dust," he says. "Why should we glorify terrorism and people who chose to kill themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Site of IRA Hunger Strike Haunts Northern Ireland | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...better than his poetry. In 1998 the publication of The Savage Detectives vaulted him into the first rank of Spanish-language literature, right up there with all those writers he had mocked as an infrarealista. But by then he was already suffering from the liver disease that would kill him at age 50. He had all but completed 2666 when he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolaño's 2666: The Best Book of 2008 | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...fence-mending commencement address McCain had given at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University and his hawkish stand on the war in Iraq. "I told John the right wing never wants to be satisfied; they're professional whiners," Duberstein remembers now. "They are never happy. So don't kill yourself trying. They will never trust you, no matter what you do for them. John looked at me like I didn't understand. He said, 'Don't worry. People know who I am.' " (See pictures of John McCain's campaign farewell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Past Defeat: How Can McCain Recover? | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...people that it was an accident, in light of the torrent of attacks on public officials by drug gangs. High-ranking police, prosecutors and judges have been slain across Mexico this year, while assassins have massacred hundreds of rank-and-file police and soldiers. Although cartel hitmen traditionally kill their targets with firearms, they have lately grown increasingly sophisticated and ruthless - drug gangs are alleged to be behind a bomb that exploded in Mexico City in February and grenades that were thrown into a crowded plaza in September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plane Crash Kills Mexico's Deputy Leader | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Santiago Vasconcelos had been, over the past decade, one of Mexico's most outspoken and active figures in the fight against drug cartels. He narrowly escaped assassination in January, when federal police arrested in a Mexico City house five hitmen who had allegedly been contracted to kill him. He had held a series of top positions in the federal Attorney General's office but stepped down in August, citing personal reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plane Crash Kills Mexico's Deputy Leader | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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