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As they venture across this alien landscape, players must seek through technique and concentration a peculiarly thrilling reward: the perfect control of a ball's trajectory over hundreds of yards, through contact that lasts less than a split second. When it all goes right, as it did for Justin Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Path to Perfection | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

In 1984, however, Democrat Walter Mondale found himself in need of a miracle against incumbent President Ronald Reagan. Mondale, who joined Carter's ticket on the third day of the 1976 convention, broke with traditional timing by naming Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate a week before the party gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Veep Picks: What's the Rush? | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

Most famously, Carlin talked about the "seven words you can never say on television," foisting the verboten few on his audience with the glee of a classroom cutup and the scrupulousness of a social linguist. While his brazen routine caused a sensation (and prompted a lawsuit that eventually made it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George Carlin: Rebel at the Mike | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

Most famously, Carlin talked about the "seven words you can never say on television," foisting the verboten few into his audience's face with the glee of a classroom cutup and the scrupulousness of a social linguist. While his brazen repeating of the "dirty" words caused a sensation (and prompted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How George Carlin Changed Comedy | 6/23/2008 | See Source »

The 300-person auditorium in Tehran's Artists' House is so completely packed that at least 40 people are crowded around its entrance in the adjacent hallway. Inside, the heat is on - both literally and figuratively. An audience of mostly twentysomething men and women is here to see Mohsen Namjoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Me, Ahmadinejad! | 6/6/2008 | See Source »

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