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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Colberg would only be acting governor, however, and would call a special election from 60 to 90 days after taking that role. But on the night of Palin's rousing convention speech, even that had some at the Mug-Shot Bar in Wasilla grousing. "A new statewide election? That'll cost hundreds of thousands of dollars," said one patron. "Sarah's great for Alaska, but I don't know if she's that great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Palin Away, Who'll Run Alaska? | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...fingerprint database at the FBI's West Virginia fingerprinting facility. Cross Match scanners were sent to Iraq to book captured terrorists, insurgents and Saddam Hussein. (Saddam was annoyed, according to agents posted to Iraq. "This is how you treat criminals!" he is said to have protested between printing and mug shots. "That's right," an agent replied. "Now turn sideways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

...begin by stipulating that Irish coffee is brilliant: no sensible person can argue with caffeine and whiskey topped with cream and served in a warm mug. Irish coffee has been sold in bars since the 1950s, if not earlier, so it's surprising that it took so long for the alcohol industry to come up with a canned version of caffeinated booze called alcoholic energy drinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Ain't No Wine Cooler | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...former hedge fund manager, who defrauded clients out of more than $400 million when his ill-conceived ponzi scheme collapsed, suffers from chronic back pain and wears a pacemaker. In his mug shot, he stares quizzically at the camera with the thoroughly un-menacing look of a man who has gotten himself in way over his head. Consequently, when Israel’s lawyers confidently asserted at a bail hearing that “there is no question that Sam is neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community,” they had every reason to believe...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: Take the Money and Run | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

...misfortune, he puts my name in another thing, he's going to get a blow of my cane in the mug!", Ceccaldi warns in The Innocent. "Michel and I can begin speaking again the day he goes public, with The Elementary Particles in his hand, and says 'I am a liar, an impostor; I have been a parasite; I never did anything in my life except hurt all those around me. And I apologize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist's Mother Fires Back | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

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