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According to the Citizen, Power had wished Ignatieff well “in his political endeavours,” but worried that doing so could be seen as a statement from the Obama campaign against the government of Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Power Finds Press Trouble Again | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

That mood eventually settled on Heston. In the '60s he marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and after Robert Kennedy's death, he called for gun control. But like many young liberals, he aged into conservatism. In the '80s he became a prime spokesman for right-wing causes and in 1998 the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA). At the 2000 NRA convention, he invoked his own Moses, hoisting a rifle above his head and proclaiming that presidential candidate Al Gore could remove the gun only by prying it "from my cold, dead hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlton Heston: The Epic Man | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...51st state of the United States of America.' BOB BROWN, leader of the Australian Greens party, criticizing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for a playful salute he gave President Bush at a NATO summit. Critics say the gesture suggested subservience to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

...storm that threatens to blow in just when everyone's watching--and deciding whether to participate in--China's Olympics. The Prime Minister of Poland has already indicated he will boycott the opening ceremony because of events in Tibet; French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he wouldn't rule out a similar move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Olympic Shame | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Early this decade, TV both profited from and stoked the obsession with real estate. TLC's Trading Spaces became a phenomenon. Real estate magnate and '80s relic Donald Trump reinvented himself as a prime-time star on The Apprentice. HGTV went from being an obscure channel to being one of the most popular destinations on the dial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Home Shows Learn to Love the Bust | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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