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...wearing only a towel, his attire of choice for the following half hour. In said towel, Hartnett will be kidnapped by two warring crime bosses who think he’s someone else, get involved in a series of elaborate assassination plots, and flirt wittily with his next-door neighbor played by Lucy Liu. Every once in a while, Bruce Willis drops in to murder somebody with a pouty face...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lucky Number Slevin | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...report him to the authorities? Or would Jesus offer him food, shelter, and counsel? The clearest answer to this question comes from the story of the good Samaritan. In response to a follower asking who exactly Christ is referring to when he says “love thy neighbor,” Jesus presents the story of a Samaritan who aids an injured Jew. Jesus’ praise of the compassionate foreigner leaves little question that Christ would exhort his followers to help a man in need, regardless of citizenship.The immigration bill which passed the House of Representatives last December...

Author: By Loui Itoh, | Title: The Gospel According to Hillary | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...Boone from his paddock in northern New South Wales is the angelic figure of Marlene in her Manolo Blahniks. The daughter-in-law of Leibovitz, a Picasso-like modern master, she has come to value a work that has miraculously found its way into the hands of Boone's neighbor. But nothing is what it seems: Manhattan-accented Marlene is in fact a trucker's daughter from Benalla, in Victoria's Ned Kelly country, and the painting's contested authenticity will drag the smitten Boone and his "gorgeous thief" all the way to New York via Tokyo. Supplying comic verve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Literary Steal of Approval | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...claimed that three men, believed to be Duke lacrosse-team players, choked and sodomized her in the bathroom of an off-campus house during a raucous team party at which she was hired to strip. She also said some men yelled slurs at her, a claim backed by a neighbor who heard the words, "Hey, b____, thank your grandpa for my nice cotton shirt," as the alleged victim sped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fraternity of Silence | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...felt the wind pulling at him. For half an hour, the family huddled on the floor, until Larry's 40-km-wide eye suddenly arrived over Innisfail. It was about 7 a.m. Karl screamed frantically for his wife and was amazed when she screamed back. They ran to a neighbor's low-slung brick house to wait out the rest of the storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weathering the Storms | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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