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...aging dad, returns to earth for a comeback tour. Since he's a bearded Palestinian willing to die as a martyr, the messiah is stopped at U.S. Immigration and shipped off to Guantánamo Bay. He finds himself trapped on an island that's become a maximum-security prison, designed by the people who brought the world Kentucky Fried Chicken: "Tiny battery-size cages, guarded by ignorant teenagers ... and characterized by a profound feeling of despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy of Terrors | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...flawed" and indicated he has no plans to resign, even after Detroit's city council passed a resolution urging him to do so last week. Kilpatrick and Beatty surrendered to Wayne County authorities Monday afternoon for booking. If found guilty of the perjury charges, he could face a maximum of 15 years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Texts, Lies and the Mayor of Detroit | 3/24/2008 | See Source »

...With two close matches still in progress, Harvard needed to take at least one to earn victory. Clayton and Ermakov did not shift focus as quickly as their teammates and, after dropping their opening sets at first and third singles, these upperclassmen knew they needed a maximum length match to get the win. Kumar had complete confidence in his teammates. “Chris is a warrior,” Kumar said. “Even when he has lost the first set, he’s the one guy who I still believe will come back and win under...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Singles Wins Help Crimson Take Match | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...make all these breakthroughs in the exile world, in Tibet itself he has made little visible progress over the past 50 years. Every Tibetan I've met remains immovably devoted to him. And yet, as he said to me 12 years ago, "in spite of my open approach of maximum concessions, the Chinese position becomes even harder and harder." The violence that broke out recently was a harrowing reminder of the fact that 98% of Tibetans have no access to their leader and are denied the most basic of freedoms. And in return for talking of interdependence and the need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Monk's Struggle | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...while the American economists had a maximum of influence to shape Iraq’s new economic policy, they also had a minimum of information...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Blank Page | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

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