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...marched by the hundreds in several cities, adding a stamp of spiritual authority to the protest movement in this deeply devout country. Human-rights groups estimate that more than 100 people have been arrested so far, including three bystanders in the city of Sittwe whose alleged crime was to offer drinking water to a procession of protesting monks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma on The Brink | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

Larry Craig was only the latest. Republican Bob Allen, a conservative Florida legislator, was also caught in a men's room this summer. (Predicting Craig's denials, he claimed his alleged offer to a cop of $20 and oral sex was a "big misunderstanding.") In 2006, Ted Haggard, president of the National Association of Evangelicals, admitted "sexual immorality" after a male personal trainer said on Denver radio that he had sex with Haggard. And now an Indiana prosecutor is investigating whether Glenn Murphy Jr., 33, who recently resigned the chairmanship of the Young Republicans, began oral sex with a sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Psychology of Hypocrisy | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...Without pads. In a small ring. In a league made of teams of pit bulls. You know who man's new best friend is, Michael? The back of my damn paw. Also, I'm going to sit at the table and eat food and, when Vick comes by, not offer him any. I'll put out a little bit of water in a tiny, unappetizing flat bowl, and when he goes to drink out of a much larger, more pleasant-looking vessel filled with perfectly clean water that happens to be in the bathroom, I'm going to act totally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maltese Millionaire Speaks! | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...face or a slap on the forehead. In 1980, Wanda Brandstetter, a lobbyist for the National Organization for Women (NOW), tried to get an Illinois state representative to vote for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) by handing him a business card on which she had written, "Mr. Swanstrom, the offer for help in your election, plus $1,000 for your campaign for the pro-ERA vote." A prosecutor called the note a "contract for bribery," and the jury agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Steven Pinker: Words Don't Mean What They Mean | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...stamp of spiritual authority to the protest movement. University students have gathered, too, along with sidelined politicians and even some farmers. Human-rights groups estimate that more than 100 people have been arrested so far, including three bystanders in the western city of Sittwe whose alleged crime was to offer drinking water to a procession of protesting monks. On Sept. 3, a march from the town of Labutta drew hundreds of supporters before security forces broke up the rally. "If the regime doesn't resolve the underlying economic problems - and I don't think it can quickly - then things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma's Military Solution | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

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