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...Major, when he moved into 10 Downing Street in 1990. Their reporters gave his Labour challenger, Neil Kinnock, short shrift. On the eve of the 1992 election, the country's biggest tabloid, the Sun, printed a stark message on its front page: IF KINNOCK WINS TODAY WILL THE LAST PERSON TO LEAVE BRITAIN PLEASE TURN OUT THE LIGHTS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blair's Barnum | 7/10/2007 | See Source »

...well. After all, she notes, prostitution is a legal offense for both purveyor and consumer. And as the so-called "D.C. Madam" whose escort service Vitter says he used, Palfrey says the agency she ran was merely one-half of the alleged equation. "Why am I the only person being prosecuted?" she told TIME over the phone. "Sen. Vitter should be prosecuted [if he broke the law]" Palfrey has been battling prostitution-related charges in federal court in Washington, and became a celebrity of sorts in May when ABC's 20/20 ran a story on her service "Pamela Martin & Associates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Senator Vitter Get Hustled? | 7/10/2007 | See Source »

...weekly fare of five families around the world is striking. The American family is the only one that eats practically no fresh produce. The picture of a tiny bowl of grapes, two tomatoes and a few onions represents the amount of fruits and vegetables that the average four-person U.S. family eats in an entire week. Fresh bread and fish are also absent. With the exception of meat, most foods are processed. Counting Ragú sauce as a serving of vegetables is just a gimmick. It's no wonder that American diet books recommend reading food labels. Maybe it would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Around the World | 7/9/2007 | See Source »

...Unlike a number of other candidates for both the Republicans and the Democrats, what you see with Barack is what you get," Tribe explained. "He is not a person who is carefully tacking to one side and then the other to attract the party base for the primary and then the center for the general election...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tribe Lends Support to Early Obama Iowa Push | 7/6/2007 | See Source »

Appearing as an expert witness against "Millennium Bomber" Ahmed Ressam in March 2001, France's trail-blazing counter-terrorism investigator Jean-Louis Bruguiere left at least one court official somewhat confused. The court official asked him to restate the last name of this "Al" person the Frenchman cited as being central to the global plot of which Ressam's planned attack on Los Angeles International Airport had been part. Bruguiere patiently explained that "al Qaeda" was an organization seeking a global federation of furtive extremists to wage jihad on the West. Less than seven months later, as the lessons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Loses its One-Man War on Terror | 7/6/2007 | See Source »

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