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...make All-Hospitality Room this year." As mussed and professorial as Paterno looks, that's how slick and worldly Switzer appears. His teams are frequently referred to as "loose," a code word for undisciplined. Paterno has accomplished one of the rarest feats in sports: replacing a legendary coach, Rip Engle (whom he served as an assistant for 16 years), and becoming a larger legend. Switzer, after 13 head-coaching seasons, has not begun to displace Bud Wilkinson in the mind's image of an Oklahoma coach. Yet for 154 games, Switzer's and Wilkinson's charts--126 victories, 24 losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Champion After All | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...open Wynn Macau in China next year, has bid for a gaming license in Singapore, is investigating a London property and in 2008 will finish Encore, a $1.4 billion, all-suites hotel on 8 hectares adjacent to the Wynn. Within a decade, the company intends to rip up Wynn Las Vegas' brand-new, Tom Fazio-designed golf course to build housing developments and entertainment facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wynn's Big Bet | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...launched fizzles, he starts refusing water. That becomes a battle of wills--and teeth. Al-Qahtani quickly becomes so dehydrated that medical corpsmen forcibly administer fluids by IV drip. He tries to fight them off with his hands and is restrained. Another time, al-Qahtani tries to rip the IV needle out; when he is cuffed to his chair, he turns his head and bites the IV line completely in two. He is then strapped down and given an undisclosed amount of fluids. An hour or so later, around 9:40 a.m., al-Qahtani tells his guards that he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Interrogation of Detainee 063 | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

JOHN SZTYKIEL The last time I drove a coach like this in a big city, I made a turn too tight and took out one of the light towers and put a nice 12-in. rip in the side wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: Hitting the Road in Style | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...year: last month alone, attacks killed more than 600 Iraqis, many of them Shi'ites targeted by Sunni jihadis bent on sowing civil war. The country's universities have long served as the bulwark of Iraq's secular society, refuges from the sectarian strife that threatens to rip the country apart. But now violence has come to the campuses. A rocket attack on an engineering college in the heart of Baghdad two weeks ago killed two students and injured 17 others. Bombs have been found at several colleges, leading many universities to institute full-body searches at their gates. Radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Violence Comes To Campus | 5/31/2005 | See Source »

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