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...every night on a bowl of green chili peppers, according to a frequent guest. He once served as a federal cabinet minister?and later spent years in jail for insurrection. His band of men move between mountain hideouts, sleeping in caves. Bugti says he uses "a rock for my pillow." Reached through a satellite phone by Time in his mountain lair, Bugti spoke of how he deals with pain (he is partially paralyzed in one leg), temperatures of 45?C, and the perils of waging a guerrilla war against 26,000 Pakistani soldiers in Baluchistan: "Physical hardship?pain, the extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan's Other War | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

...What Leni does not fully reckon with, perhaps because she's inured to their weirdness, is that her relatives are all freaking nuts. Her sister works part time as a belly dancer, but spends most of her life cheerfully picking up inappropriate men. Her young daughter wears a pillow under her skirt pretending to be pregnant. The teen-aged brother has embraced strict religious orthodoxy and keeps interrupting the smooth flow of social events on this Sabbath evening by taping over the light switches and hiding everyone's cell phones; there is to be no electronic interference with true belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schickel on Movies: An Israeli-Palestinian farce. Really | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

...love the Old Bangkok Inn, tel: (662) 629 1787. Located on Rajadamnern Avenue, smack in the middle of the Thai capital's historic quarter, this snug little property has just eight individually appointed rooms. Patronne Nantiya Tulyanond can't resist cozy touches such as daily homemade cakes and nightly pillow presents. And her son Joey has been known to lead impromptu tours around the major landmarks of the neighborhood, from the Democracy Monument to the gentrifying nightlife of Khao San Road. He's also[an error occurred while processing this directive] the tech head responsible for installing a computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Thais | 6/6/2006 | See Source »

...love the Old Bangkok Inn, tel: (662) 629 1787. Located on Rajadamnern Avenue, smack in the middle of the Thai capital's historic quarter, this snug little property has just eight individually appointed rooms. Patronne Nantiya Tulyanond can't resist cozy touches such as daily homemade cakes and nightly pillow presents. And her son Joey has been known to lead impromptu tours around the major landmarks of the neighborhood, from the Democracy Monument to the gentrifying nightlife of Khao San Road. He's also the tech head responsible for installing a computer in every room and for setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Thais | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...movies. (Think of the difference between Bill Murray and Adam Sandler.) In Nacho Libre, out June 16, he plays a half-Mexican monk who starts wrestling to earn money for his order's beloved orphans. Because Black wears tights and has a physique like a throw pillow, many people have tabbed Nacho as this summer's Wedding Crashers--an over-the-top comedy poised to do big business. As directed by Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite), though, the $35 million film is more like Don Quixote set in the absurd subculture of Mexican wrestling than a traditional multiplex comedy. "Jack doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret Plan of Jack Black | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

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