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...ridicule later. So he has either turned down every gift bag he's been offered or has put them up on eBay for charity. "I've been smart about that. Rich famous people getting free s___ looks bad. You look greedy. And I don't need a cell phone with sparkles on it," he says. He sends handwritten apology letters to the directors whose scenes he ripped off in the movies he directed-Mike Nichols, Sidney Lumet, Sydney Pollack. He drives an electric car and a Lexus hybrid but won't be a spokesman for the environment because he flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Clooney: The Last Movie Star | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...detectives in her hospital bed Monday while under police guard. Identified as Tania Vazquez, 22, the woman lives in the rough market neighborhood of Tepito, known as a center of drug dealing. Police raided her home on Sunday and took about $2,500 in cash and lists of phone numbers, officials said. No charges have been leveled against her at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Mexico's Drug War Escalating? | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...Minister. One incumbent belonging to President Pervez Musharraf's Pakistan Muslim League-Qaid (PML-Q), the winner of every election for the past 20 years, has apparently been routed by Nawaz Sharif's candidate. "I think the initial results seem to be quite favorable," Sharif told TIME over the phone. "The trend is good." Fears of vote-rigging, however, are dampening the initial excitement. "All the TV stations are giving the same results. That might be very difficult for the government to change, but Mr. Mushararraf is capable of doing anything," says Sharif. "He is a very ruthless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Opposition Holds Its Breath | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

Just what information the soldiers are relying on is not being revealed, but many of the rebels may be changing their mobile phone SIM cards to avoid having their locations triangulated. In the absence of reliable intelligence, the ISF is forced to resort to broad-brush tactics. Earlier last week, Australian forces conducted a sweep around the tiny village of Dare, perched on the western mountain range that rises steeply behind Dili. The soldiers threw up checkpoints on the roads and declared the area a "media-free zone," denying access to journalists, but allowing Timorese to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Frustrating Manhunt in Timor | 2/17/2008 | See Source »

...poking up his head. "No one was standing or shouting," he says. So Santos stood up, grabbed his girlfriend, and stood against the wall. The couple, both rail-thin, moved in the roughly 10-inch gap between the wall and row of seats. Some students tried dialing their cell phones, with no luck; cell phone service in the lecture hall was usually spotty, anyways. Blood was everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the NIU Massacre Happened | 2/16/2008 | See Source »

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