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...many guys who were stronger, yet they didn't seem to be working out any harder. And they were racking up the bylines. I'm talking about economics writers who couldn't lift a comma. What were they doing? Hey, I am a reporter, right? A couple of phone calls later and I got it figured. They were juiced, in capital letters. I make the connection: the source is a beat-up wire service guy who spent too much time in South America in the '70s. All the top journos are doing steroids, he assures me. He names names. Pulitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Juiced Journo | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...have any cell-phone-payment pilot projects going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Credit Cards and Spendthrifts | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...Loras College, a tiny Catholic school in Iowa, Brownback is speaking to a pro-life group. Five minutes into his talk, standing in front of a statue of Jesus on the Cross, he mentions his daughter. He has been talking to her on the phone all day as she boards flights to head home to Kansas. He hasn't seen her since she joined Teach for America months ago. It will be days before he's home. And he starts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Run of an Also Ran | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...unprompted phone call to a Crimson reporter yesterday, Faust said that while there were no factual errors in the Globe’s story, it mischaracterized her approach to Allston as “a dramatic change of direction...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland and Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faust: Expansion Plans Not on Hold | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

Ever since 18-year-old Ishmeet Singh won the glitzy American Idol-inspired Voice of India contest on Star TV last month, the phone hasn't stopped ringing at his family's home in Ludhiana, the busy industrial hub of Punjab. But the kudos is about more than Singh's impressive singing prowess; he has earned it by the fact that he is a keshdhari (turban-wearing) Sikh. "It is his sabat-surat [appearance conforming to the Sikh ideal] that has brought him where he is today," says his proud father Gurpinder Singh. "He has shown other Sikh boys that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India 'Idol' Launches a New Turban Legend | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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