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...create a genetically perfected Master Race. In time, as the war goes badly for the Germans, it becomes a military hospital. By then, however, Jan has married a Hitlerite, who dies leaving him an invaluable stamp collection she has liberated from a Holocaust victim. The proceeds from its sale enable him to buy the spa, which is where the new Communist regime finds him and, in essence, punishes him as much for his lack of current ideological enthusiasm as for his wartime collaboration with the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Review: I Served the King of England | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...finally crack down on what they say are extensive criminal networks operating in the neighborhood. Their campaign won't bring an end to prostitution, which has been legal in the Netherlands since 2000; nor will they systematically uproot the red-light district's scores of coffeehouses, where the sale of marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms has long been allowed. But the easy tolerance of sex and drugs that has so long characterized Amsterdam is fading fast. In its place comes a growing concern over the criminal enterprises that have moved in on what were once cottage industries of vice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vice Versa: Amsterdam Cleans Up | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

...through a food market alley, and it has led me to believe that the further you can get away from the development that China so highly touts, the closer you can get to something you’ll want to remember. There were not only fruits and vegetables for sale but also frogs, turtles, eels, ducks, chickens with their heads cut off, and exotic items that words can’t do justice. I was strolling through when I saw a vendor pull a live snake from a bag, gut it, and hand it to a paying customer, who then...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shanghai-tened Reality | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell said Biden, with his working class roots and a 35-year Senate record, can appeal to two groups of voters with whom Obama has had difficulty closing the sale: blue-collar workers and suburban female voters, whom Obama strategists hope will remember the fights Biden waged on the Senate Judiciary Committee against conservative judicial nominees and for legislation such as the bill that became the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. "Joe's about as good a messenger as we can get to those groups," Rendell says. "And once you've got a good messenger, the issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Biden Will Come Out Punching | 8/23/2008 | See Source »

...editor Larry Smith, who founded Smith magazine and signs his e-mails "Big hair, big heart, big hurry," says the collection was inspired by a six-word story Ernest Hemingway allegedly produced on a dare: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiku Nation | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

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