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...Saddam, importing consumer electronics like refrigerators, washing machines and air conditioners. But his modest single-story home in the middle-class Yarmuk neighborhood still looks as it did when he inherited it from his father, an army captain. "I won't even put on a fresh coat of paint because that would arouse suspicions," he said. He drives around Baghdad in a beat-up Japanese car "even though I can afford a top-of-the-line Mercedes." Only when he's abroad does he live large, booking suites in the best hotels, buying expensive suits that he leaves with business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In Hell: A Baghdad Diary | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...less-than-pristine prints that exist today, The Black Book is an shining, or rather murky, example of monochromatic camera artistry. It makes a sympathetic viewer rue Hollywood's decision, in the mid-'60s, to make all movies in color. Something was lost: the cinematographer's ability to paint with light in black-and-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Mann | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...contacted the Fund to discuss the store’s appearance. “They’re a chain, which is not great for the Square, but their signage appears to not be too obtrusive,” Nathans said. The Fund has encouraged American Apparel to paint a mural on the blank side of the building facing Church Street, she said. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Apparel To Open New Harvard Square Location | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...agency nominally was.The grime accentuated the building’s weirdly Gotham feel—it is divided into two five-story wings which fan from a taller, and, might I add, completely useless center. Nowadays, everyone knows Sayansi because the chosen remedy to its erstwhile grunginess was to paint one wing a bright blue, and the other an equally radiant white. The two bodies of paint meet in a momentous curve that swoops from the South wing’s top floor to the base of the North wing. In a capital city full of garish wonders, Sayansi must...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Sitting, Waiting, Wishing | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...would pull out a victory by doing what he had always done better than anyone else: turn out the vote by pinpointing with extreme efficiency the religious conservatives. "I do guerrilla warfare," Reed once boasted to a reporter, describing how he ambushed his enemies as a political operative. "I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag." So imagine everyone's surprise, in Washington and Atlanta, when the results came in on primary night and suddenly it was Reed's body that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rise and Fall of Ralph Reed | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

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