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...Maersk Alabama into port, crew members appeared at the stern of the ship to praise Capt. Richard Phillips. "He saved our lives!" said one man, identified by The Associated Press as second mate Ken Quinn, of Bradenton, Florida. "He's a hero." Another, who identified himself as ATM Reza, said that he had persuaded one pirate to go to the engine room, where he overpowered the pirate, stabbing him in the hand and tying him up. (Photographer Jehad Nga offers a rare glimpse of the men who plunder the east coast of Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hijacked Ship Back in Port, Its Captain Still a Hostage | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...captain being free." Indeed, soon after tugboats pushed the Maersk Alabama into port, crew members began to praise Phillips. "He saved our lives!" said one man, identified by The Associated Press as second mate Ken Quinn, of Bradenton, Florida. "He's a hero." Another, who identified himself as ATM Reza, said that he had persuaded one pirate to go to the engine room, where he overpowered the pirate, stabbing him in the hand and tying him up. (Photographer Jehad Nga offers a rare glimpse of the men who plunder the east coast of Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crew Celebrates as Captain Is Rescued from Pirates | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...French playwright Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage is at least livelier, though it's set in a similarly claustrophobic world of refined, self-involved people. Two upper-middle-class couples (transplanted, in the U.S. translation, from Paris to Brooklyn) get together in the tastefully decorated living room of one to calmly discuss how to resolve a schoolyard fracas between their two boys. One of the parents is a corporate lawyer who can't extricate himself from his cell phone. Another is a socially committed writer who proudly displays a collection of art books on the coffee table. A third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong with This Spring's Broadway Plays? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...sure how you can take seriously a play whose comic coup de théâtre (it gets uproarious laughter) is a scene of projectile vomiting. But it's typical of Reza's quest for easy laughs at the expense of her superficially serious theme: the familiar one that civilized upper-middle-class people are really barbarians underneath. The unsavory revelations that emerge during the play's one long scene (e.g., one dad secretly got rid of his kid's pet hamster by turning it loose on the street) are mere contrivances played simply for laughs; I get more insights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong with This Spring's Broadway Plays? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...asked others, and they said, "There's no detention for that." So that's kind of an excuse.' REZA SABERI, father of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was reportedly arrested in Tehran for buying a bottle of wine and was last heard from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

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