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...There was no doubt he was a dangerous man, a murderer. He admitted it. But there was a glittering, reptilian brilliance to his madness. A line from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness kept running through my head. "Exterminate the brutes." He was Mr. Kurtz gone insane in the jungle. He was anxious to start the interview. His scouts had run down a band of leftist guerrillas, and Casta?o wanted to go and personally exterminate them. He had a blood debt to avenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting the Most Dangerous Man in Colombia | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...they do," he explained, referring to the equally barbaric tactics of the guerrillas. Occasionally he was wistful; he said he dreamed of taking his kids to Disneyworld. Years later, I heard that Casta?o had changed, that he wanted to disarm his mercenary brigades and maybe enter politics. But like Kurtz, he'd gone too far into the heart of darkness. And his older brother Vicente was already there, waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting the Most Dangerous Man in Colombia | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...grosses or whether a film is CGI or not; the awards are about quality. Without question, the three best films were nominated this year. In the future there are going to be more excellent animated features, and perhaps they won't be CGI?so get used to it. Bob Kurtz Former Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...grosses or whether a film is cgi or not; the awards are about quality. Without question, the three best films were nominated this year. In the future there are going to be more excellent animated features, and perhaps they won't be cgi - so get used to it. Bob Kurtz Former Governor, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Los Angeles Aiming to Influence Your cover on the secrets of ambition [Feb. 13] loosely described it as "that need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie." It seemed that many of the successful people in the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Google Empire | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...KURTZ FORMER GOVERNOR, ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS & SCIENCES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 13, 2006 | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

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