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...only the loose dust. Then I lay down anyhow and closed my eyes. The naked bulb hanging from the center of the cell was directly above my head. Though dim, it irritated me. I looked around the cell but could not see a light switch anywhere. ''Please!'' I called, knocking on the door. ''I can't find the light switch.'' ! ''We don't switch off the light at night. In future, when you want to speak to the guards, just say, 'Report.' Don't knock on the door. Don't say anything else.'' I lay down again and turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...center Andrew Naeve got open down low for what looked like an easy two points. But as the big man went up for the dunk, two Harvard defenders converged to contest the shot, and Harris got a hand on the ball to knock it away. Harris then beat Naeve on the offensive end, scoring over the taller player with a lefty hook shot. On the next possession, Housman stole the ball from guard Louis Dale and fed a streaking Harris for another big two-handed dunk, which gave Harvard a 63-58 lead and brought the crowd to a frenzy...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harris Flashes Upside in Upset | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

...jewelry belonged to Mexican Businessman Hugo Salinas y Rochas, 74, and his wife Marie-Isabelle. Answering a knock on their hotel-room door, the couple were grabbed by two young men carrying pistols, who handcuffed them to bedposts, taped their mouths and then made off with the jewelry, which had just been brought up from the hotel safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Haute Heist | 1/31/2007 | See Source »

Henry, a onetime actor who performed in Simon's Odd Couple and Barefoot in the Park in small New Jersey productions in 1966 and 1967, recalls that the lines always drew laughs. Henry notes, however, that Simon, like many practitioners of comedy, is not an outgoing, knock-'em-dead kind of interview. "He is not a performer. He has more of the temperament of a professor or an accountant. In conversations, what you get is first-draft Neil Simon. The words are intelligent, authoritative and sometimes funny, but not burnished, not like his plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter from the Publisher: Dec. 15, 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...carrier battle groups to the region in an attempt to defuse the situation. In a similar scenario today, Lin says, China's ability to destroy satellites would reduce the effectiveness of U.S. forces, which rely heavily on them for real-time battlefield data. "Now China has the capability to knock out the eyes in the heaven for the U.S.," Lin says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What China's Missile Test Means for Taiwan | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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