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...attack was a response to the rape and killings--another soldier in their infantry unit told Army combat-stress counselors in Baghdad about the alleged murders in Mahmudiya. Within 24 hours of the initial report, Army officers turned the case over to military criminal investigators at Iraq's Camp Slayer. Six days later, the FBI arrested Green near his grandmother's house in Nebo, N.C., where he was visiting after attending a troopmate's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soldier's Shame | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

...numerology. Conservative author Ann Coulter chose the date as the publication day for her lefty-bashing book called Godless: The Church of Liberalism. Radio Free Satan, an online rock station, is hosting a Monday "sin-tennial" party in Los Angeles called "Satan's Rockin' 666 Eve party." The band Slayer planned to launch its "Unholy Alliance Tour" on Tuesday (until a band member got sick), and 20 Century Fox is releasing its remake of The Omen, the 1976 horror film about a boy who bears Satan's 666 mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Devil of a Day | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...really happy lyrics,” Porter adds. “At all.” The heaviness of their message certainly shouldn’t scare anyone away, however, and the band’s wide array of influences (which, Porter insists, range from Joanna Newsom to Slayer) means that there will be something in its set for every rock fan. Playing at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday in Loker Commons, Plan B’s brand of melodic punk promises to please. With a wide range of new and old songs, from angry sounding numbers with angry lyrics...

Author: By Henry M. Cowles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus Rockers Unleash Onslaught | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

Others have a more romantic view of the vampiric appeal. "I think vampires are very dark, and women have a tendency to want to save them," says Feehan. After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon (who created the venerated Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper as bodice ripper. A fiftysomething grandmother from north of San Francisco, she has written 30 books since 1998 about the Carpathians, an undead race of mainly men, and their struggle to find undying love. Her books are not about lust, she says. "The appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Well, Hello, Suckers | 2/19/2006 | See Source »

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER THE CHOSEN COLLECTION Creator JossWhedon took a marginal 1992 movie about a cheerleader who whups the undead and turned it into a story of self-discovery with strong emotional, ahem, stakes. Over 40 discs and 144 episodes, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) grows from snarky adolescent into wounded young woman, leaving a trail of latex-faced villains behind her. The finest episodes come in the more mature later seasons--especially the Sondheimesque musical "Once More, with Feeling" in Season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: 7 Blasts From TV's Past | 11/27/2005 | See Source »

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