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...never to have counted that consequence. Caught and convicted, he is being held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, allowed out of his cell for just one hour a day. Should one imagine him still chortling over his dark accomplishments? Or is he, at last, burdened by regret? It's impossible to say. What one can say, however, is that his story - much more a study in enigmatic character than an exercise in suspense - makes a very good movie: subtle, complex, bleakly funny at times, but always utterly enveloping, one of the great studies in profoundly abnormal psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Mind of a Spy | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...confident that it's accurate: "They can come after us all they want--it won't change what we're trying to do." What they're trying to do, she says, is prevent a frightened pregnant woman from making a rash decision that she may come to regret. You can talk about choice all you like, she argues, but if a woman feels overwhelmed and all alone and thinks she can somehow "turn back the clock like the pregnancy never happened," then she doesn't understand what abortion really entails. "We need to counter the message that abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grass-Roots Abortion War | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...prison warden said her psychological assessment showed no risk of "backsliding." Klar is not eligible for parole until 2009, but he has appealed for early release. "Of course, I have to acknowledge my guilt," he wrote in that 2003 request. "I understand the feelings of the victims and I regret the suffering of these people." German President Horst Köhler is expected to decide on the appeal next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Ghosts | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

Slavery Virginia's house of delegates this month passed a resolution, led by delegate DONALD MCEACHIN, expressing "profound regret" for slavery--the closest a state has come to apologizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Word Politicos Try To Avoid: Sorry | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...dusk, when the day is fading away and my physical energy is at a low ebb, I may find myself depressed and nostalgic. But next morning I invariably wake up with renewed optimism to welcome the day as another God-given opportunity for enlightenment and experience. My only regret is that Meiping is not here with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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