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...course, after reading Nasdijj's essay and book, I suspected that he was a literary thief and a liar. As a Native American writer and multiculturalist, I worried that Nasdijj was a talented and angry white man who was writing as a Native American in order to mock multicultural literature. I imagined that he would eventually reveal himself as a hoaxer and shout, "You see, people, there is nothing real or authentic about multicultural literature. Anybody can write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Story Stolen Is Your Own | 1/29/2006 | See Source »

...FOCUS ON MONEY? There seem to be thousands of books out there about money, and I am basically trying to viciously mock them. They don't seem to do a lot of good. Look at how many have been sold. Theoretically, every living human being should be at least a millionaire if these books were even halfway effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Dave Barry | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Qaeda operatives in the U.S. This followed reports of "black sites" in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, where high-level al-Qaeda operatives were kept incommunicado and under stress in conditions well below even Motel 6 standards. Which followed reports of various "coercive interrogation" techniques (most notoriously, water boarding, or mock drowning) used to get information out of the likes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of the 9/11 attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Think We Catch the Bad Guys? | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

...while Daniel's work is treated as a calling but also, realistically, as a job, with ambitions, pressures and politics. The scripts neatly balance satire and sincerity: while the show's outlandish twists challenge Daniel's faith--he's like Job, if Job lived on Melrose Place--they never mock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Prime-Time Religion | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...breakfast at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City and did some quiet photo ops for private donors. During a stop in Little Rock to shoot some public-service announcements last spring, 41 spent more than an hour talking alone with 42 in the mock Oval Office at the Clinton library. "It looked like a wax museum in there," said a visitor who peeked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Opposites Attract | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

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