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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sicilian-American Antonin Scalia, has some personal experience to work from. Last year when a reporter asked what he had to say to his critics, the brilliant judge responded: "I say "Vaffanculo!" If it is indeed a question of context, let the record show that Scalia had a big smile on his face - and that he was at a Catholic church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Va Fangul!... And Have a Nice Day | 7/17/2007 | See Source »

...Kadikoy district, toiling late into the summer night writing blogs, collecting Web clippings and organizing marches. When he finds time for a book, it's the writings of Turkey's revered founder Kemal Ataturk, not Dan Brown. "I could have been starting my career," he says with a wry smile. "Instead, I am doing this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey's Great Divide | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

...babyhood nickname and her Texas drawl. When the John sons had the Nixons to lunch at the White House just after the election, Pat Nixon told Lady Bird: "I've been many places, and I've heard nothing but admiration for you." She added with a smile: "And I've been places where I might have heard otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady Bird's Last Hurrah | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

Harry's immediate problem is a new teacher, Miss Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), on assignment to bring discipline to Hog-warts. Pink and perky, she soon becomes the students' nightmare: a cheery commissar, a suburban Stalinist with a smile like a rictus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Was a Teenage Wizard | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...boasting over 100 million people—40 times the population of Mongolia. Ironically, this name was one adopted by my Mongolian ancestors because the nomads traditionally never had family names. If I reveal that I am a quarter Mongolian, the change is instantaneous. Their faces break into a smile of relief, and they happily exclaim, “Yes! I could see it in your cheekbones/eyes/height! You’re unmistakably Mongolian...

Author: By Joyce Y. Zhang | Title: Reconciliation in the Land of the Khans | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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