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...raided his daughter's home three weeks before Election Day, Pennsylvania Congressman Curt Weldon figured he knew exactly whom to blame. The agents were looking for evidence that he had used his influence to help Karen Weldon win lobbying and consulting contracts, but the 10-term Congressman wasn't mad at just them. "It's a woman who runs an organization called CREW," he complained to a blogger for the Daily Pennsylvanian. That woman is a tenacious 40-year-old former prosecutor named Melanie Sloan, whose targets have included Tom DeLay and Mark Foley. She is executive director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hill Monitor | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

...would think there is a collective interest in keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of the mad and reckless hermit dictatorship of North Korea. There is not. Disarming Kim Jong Il would require China to starve and break his regime. Why doesn't Beijing act? Because China has a prime interest in maintaining a friendly communist ally as a buffer between itself and U.S. forces in South Korea; as a roadblock to a dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea; and as a distraction keeping America tied down in the northern Pacific, while China maneuvers to regain Taiwan and extend its influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ...But Not At The U.N. | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...protests? Chen makes all the major decisions on his own without any discussion with others. Also, he wavers in his stances. People can forgive him these things because of his lack of experience and his lack of vision, but when [the financial scandals] came out, I was really, really mad. I had to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions: Shih Ming-teh | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...victims--an overpaid baseball player, a nosy therapist, a troublesome housewife--with a cool efficiency they would appreciate if they weren't already dead. Block has more than 50 books under his belt, but none are more endearing--or subversive--than his Keller novels. In a world gone mad, the hit man with a heart of gold may be the only one who still knows right from wrong. You find yourself thinking, "So he kills people. Is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Novel Mysteries From Old Masters | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...their own. They weren’t perfect back then, either. How do I know? I met my dad’s buddy from college the other day, who said to me, “Hi, Eric; I’m Lloyd. I used to go to school with Mad...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: The Visit | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

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