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...metal shutter, dragging him by the T-shirt and cracking their sticks over his head. We look back to the first demonstrator. He seems unconscious, but the police are still beating him. A woman on the terrace of her house three floors directly above screams and throws a pail of water over them. The police respond by picking up bricks from the ground and throwing them through two of her windows. Then they drag the protester's body away, and walk back down the lane towards us, laughing. One of them spies me and my notepad and shouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: A Revolution in Nepal? | 4/20/2006 | See Source »

...recently, he has had company in that exercise. Even without that much imagination, a Christian curious about Joseph can take some sturdy, basic inspiration from the carpenter who is, at a minimum, humanity's stand-in, a lunch-pail hero not born to holiness but who, by his hard-won and steadfast belief, finds a role in salvation. This season two big-name writers have taken Joseph's story a step further. He is a major supporting character in erstwhile vampirologist Anne Rice's current best seller, Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. And he has a lead role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Father & Child | 12/12/2005 | See Source »

...shown in to what looked like aunt Edna's room. A bed, a desk and armoire fit snugly into the space. I was happy I was only staying there for a few hours. "Probably not a lot of wi-fi here," I joked to myself looking at the wash-pail-sized tub (sans shower curtain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Boogie Down Production | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

...moved over from SI to People magazine and the cover of EW. He said he wants to be an actor one day, and no one doubts he will be. The Sox as World Champions are kind of the anti-Pats-Tom Terrific and a bunch of hardworking lunch-pail teammates. The Sox are cartoon characters and superheroes. Ortiz, Ramirez, Schilling: larger than life in personality and, in Curt's case, with an ego to match. Damon's everyone's darling. Varitek is like a Cooperstown statue of "Catcher" and, now, "Captain" too. Arroyo, who starred as a hard-rock singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Our Red Sox,' Still? | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

Halfway through Constantine, a fully clad Keanu Reeves steps into a shallow pail of water, sits on a chair next to it and holds a cat in his lap. Any actor who can retain his charisma in this weird-silly moment--can keep us watching, and admiring his dutiful nonchalance--deserves to be called a movie star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Caught Between Heaven and Hell | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

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