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...appear on Celebrity Big Brother). Let's pay tribute to that intellect by employing her rhetorical device of invented quote and response. I imagine her yelling: "I am a loathsome creature who lacks human feeling and has so completely lost touch with Australia that I vow to be silent on its affairs." Yes Germaine, that's a great idea. And start today, will you, for God's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of the Crocodile Hunter | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

...more Hizballah is likely to press its advantage. The danger for Hizballah is that when the level of destruction fully sinks in, Lebanese leaders and ordinary citizens may well hold the group accountable for triggering Israel's wrath. For the time being, however, even Hizballah's critics are mainly silent, no doubt in deference to the prowess that Hizballah guerrillas have shown against Israel's more powerful armed forces. In Beirut's southern suburbs, where the group's bulldozers have cleared massive piles of rubble from the streets, Hizballah has planted bright red banners declaring MADE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East War For Hearts and Minds | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...addition to his rock work, Williams has taken on the Kronos Quartet ("The equipment can't be merely quiet, it has to be silent") and is brainstorming ways to light the revitalized South Bank Centre on the Thames. But he still gets his greatest thrill watching people watch his work. When Williams went to a Vertigo concert with artist Julian Opie, whose minimalist figures were incorporated into the show's visuals, Opie couldn't disguise his envy. "No one," he said, "ever applauds at an art gallery." --By Josh Tyrangiel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sound & Light: Food for the Eyes and Ears | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...moans of pleasure would emerge from the kitchen, where he was devouring a sausage sandwich, tomato sauce dripping down his shirt. He would drive me into Cessnock to the pie shop and home through the vineyards, every paddock and building inspiring a pastry-flecked lesson in Hunter history. With silent precision we'd stop at his gate to inspect each other's clothes for telltale crumbs. We were never caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man in Full | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

...itself doesn't appear to be that great. A short distance away is a city of high rises that today is completely deserted. If you're looking down on it from a helicopter, it's not at all apparent why this is so. But one knows there is a silent enemy lurking there." Gdansk, Poland Sept. 8, 1980 "I'm not a born speaker," Lech Walesa shouted to hundreds of people gathered outside the gates of the Lenin Shipyard. "I'm just a simple worker, so forgive me if I use simple language." Simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Time For Change | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

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