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...many people get away with calling the Central Intelligence Agency a bald-faced liar, at least not when they're speaking to a room packed with dozens of national media outlets. And yet that is exactly what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did on Thursday. "Madam Speaker, just to be clear," stuttered a reporter at a Capitol Hill press conference, "you're accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2002?" "Yes," Pelosi declared definitively, "misleading the Congress of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Waterboarding Is Drowning Pelosi | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

Vitter, Sen. David • airport tantrum is thrown by, leading to much reporting on the story that invariably includes unwelcomed-by reminder of the inclusion of the name of on phone records of the "D.C. Madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

Spears, Britney •earning potential of as a prostitute is assessed by Spitzer madam Kristin Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...plans she has for the future. Rather than centering on clichéd cultural conflicts, the movie focuses on Mr. Shi as he copes with generational differences. He soon becomes friends with an elderly woman from Iran whom he meets on daily visits to a park. “Madam,” as he calls her, speaks English as well—or, rather, as poorly—as he does, and the pair communicates through broken English, gestures, and their native languages. They form a close bond and anxiously wait each morning for their daily conversations. But when...

Author: By Rachel S. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...With this dramatic presentation, and after the benediction of Oscar, directors lined up to cast Hayes in their films. He had the title role in Jonathan Kaplan's Truck Turner, starring with Yaphet Kotto, Scatman Crothers and, as a randy-mouthed madam, Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols. (It was really a black Rockford Files, the James Garner TV series that started the same year and on which Hayes had a few guest shots.) Hayes also co-starred in Duccio Tessari's Tough Guys, which mixed the blaxploitation and Italian action genres to produce what might be called a blaxpaghetti movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Isaac Hayes: From Shaft to Chef | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

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