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...driver's jumpsuit - walking slowly past the officials' stand, one arm held aloft with the middle finger of his hand extended. "My only regret," he later wrote on his blog, "is that I couldn't show both fingers at the same time because I happened to be having a phone conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Han Han: China's Literary Bad Boy | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Josh gave me lots of detailed advice on coupon-positioning and expiration-date-hiding, but as soon as I got to CVS, I was overwhelmed by all the math and rules and price signs that screamed, Wow! Guiding me by phone, Josh let me buy some fish-oil pills that were 2 for 1. But the woman at the register mistakenly rang me up for both bottles of pills, and then I had to wait 10 minutes while a health-care-bill amount of paperwork was filled out. Ten minutes may not sound bad for $7, but it takes just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: The Week of Living Cheaply | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

Abadi did not return numerous phone messages, but his brother Gavin Abadi, an auctioneer also involved in the "Madoff" events, told TIME that Madoff victims do indeed provide merchandise for the auctions and that "we're getting inventory from them every single week." The problem, he said, is that most victims ask to remain anonymous. Southern Star put TIME in touch with one Madoff investor who said he lost millions in the Ponzi scheme and confirmed that he had given the Abadis some artwork to auction. But while that person said he was happy with the price the Abadis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Soon to Your Town: Fake 'Madoff' Auctions? | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

That new U.S. resolve started last week with a stern phone call from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Micheletti, who has cracked down on media outlets and civil liberties since Zelaya's return to Honduras last month. She then dispatched to Tegucigalpa a U.S. delegation led by Restrepo and Thomas Shannon, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Shannon downplayed any U.S. strong-arming, insisting the accord resulted "not so much from what we were telling Micheletti but from what other Hondurans were telling Micheletti." In a speech Thursday night, Micheletti called the Zelaya restoration concession "significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deal Finally Ends Honduras' Coup Crisis | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...snapshot of a very small percentage of ex-wrestlers. It's not really how every wrestler ends up. It wasn't as intense as what the business is all about. And Mickey Rourke making so much drama out of cutting himself with a razor blade. Making a phone call from the dressing room is harder than cutting yourself with a razor blade. I've done that thousands of times. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Mickey Rourke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hulk Hogan | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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