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...ball struck the crossbar. Beitar was scoreless. Then, in the last six minutes of the game, Ha'poel drilled in two goals. The Jerusalem fans left in a foul mood, disgusted with the team and its owner. Around town, posters of Gaydamak, whose thin face has a Transylvanian pallor, sprouted Dracula fangs. (See pictures of a divided Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bizarre Race to Be Jerusalem's Mayor | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...around the table at a restaurant in Chengdu on a recent evening, Tan, a.k.a. Withered Rose, and seven other members of the NCPH workshop don't look as though they could bring the U.S. economy to a halt. All in their early 20s, rail thin and with the prison pallor acquired from long nights spent hunched over monitors, they look like what they are: a bunch of nerds. They refuse to give their real names, referring to one another by nicknames--Blacksmith, Firestarter, Fisherman, Floorsweeper, Chef, Plumber, Pharmacist. All vehemently deny having anything to do with attacks on U.S. government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enemies at The Firewall | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

That treasure was Israel's self-image. After independence in 1948, the kibbutzniks were seen as the new breed of Israeli. They discarded Europe's deathly pallor and became bronzed, idealistic pioneers. Degania, which had been founded in 1910 by 12 Jews escaping Russian persecution, was the ideal. Its members were beset by malaria, cattle thieves and bouts of self-doubt. Yet they greened the stony hills with citrus groves. At night in the communal dining hall they argued passionately over the grand themes of the late 20th century: the individual vs. the group, women's rights, capitalism vs. socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of a Zionist Idyll | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...have never seen. I asked 14 people to take my pain and the hell that doctors and psychologists and friends have begged me not to look at. I watched as the days went on and I began to see people who had not slept, people with dark circles and pallor, people with nervous twitching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Jurors on the Couch | 4/10/2007 | See Source »

...dangerous moment in popular movie-making occurs when honest sentiment shades over into dishonest sentimentality. It is, for example, dismaying to see terminally ill patients in movies remaining perky and life-affirming right up until the moment they die. And worse,showing no physical or emotionally ill effects - no pallor, emaciation or, for that matter, anger or fear - as they approach life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sentiment -- Not Sentimentality | 12/21/2006 | See Source »

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