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If true, that may be an indication as to how perceptions about the McCanns have changed since Madeleine vanished last May. Back then, parents worldwide could identify with them. But three months into the unsuccessful investigation, as the McCanns kept up their high-profile media blitz, what started as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The McCanns: After the Headlines | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

There's little reason to believe Iran has had a change of heart about the U.S. presence in Iraq. But if what Crocker suspects is true, Tehran might be more responsive to U.S. pleas than its rhetoric suggests - though even for a seasoned Middle East diplomat like Crocker, who began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crocker Sees Signs of Hope in Iran | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

That attitude led to quite a few excesses. Ten years ago, when a malfunctioning electric chair caused a prisoner's leather mask to burst into flames during his execution, Florida's Democratic Attorney General Robert Butterworth joked that the problems with "Old Sparky" - the chair's nickname - were actually a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons? | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

The attacks leave Erica battered and bereft. She sits in her apartment listening to David speak comfortingly, chillingly, on her voice mail. Her home is a jail, but outside - the city whose byways it has been her job and passion to celebrate - is a charnel house she fears to enter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jodie Foster, Feminist Avenger | 9/14/2007 | See Source »

Hank Deerfield (Jones) is a terse, honorable man, an ex-soldier who, against the pleas of his wife (Sarandon), encouraged his son to enlist for Iraq. Now he learns that the boy, Mike, has been back in the States without telling his family and, much worse, has been found murdered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq War Films Focus on Soldiers | 9/1/2007 | See Source »

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