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Shaikh Rashid is not much older than Ahmad -perhaps ten years, perhaps twenty. He has few wrinkles in the white skin of his face. He is diffident though precise in his movements. In the years by which he is older, the world has weakened him. When the murmuring of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Updike's "Terrorist" | 5/27/2006 | See Source »

America loves a good rags-to-riches story, and for the Packers, theirs began anew in 1992. From out of nowhere, or rather the New York Jets, came a new general manager, Ron Wolf. He hired Holmgren, the crackerjack offensive coordinator for the 49ers who can go both ways - tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Real Team | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

Okay-lah. Yet the sleepy, soggy Kinta Valley comes alive in Aw's fluid prose, and the mythical Seven Maidens are as idyllic as any Malaysian isles. World War II and the cloud of collaboration hang over Johnny and his country, while the absurdities of British rule clearly shape his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell, Pink Gin | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

The visiting dignitaries did step out from time to time. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, shod in Adidas, alighted from his silver sedan to jog in Central Park. He also stopped at Cohen's Fashion Optical to buy, using a credit card, $3,000 worth of eyeglasses for himself and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Global Family Album | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

But that's not why we're here--not at the IMAX installation, anyway. We're here for the train. Or, more particularly, it's vertiginous journey. It is all S curves and roller-coaster ups and downs, with a skidding voyage across a literally trackless ice sheet thrown in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: All Aboard the Big Train | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

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