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...easy to snort at the fate of a very rich man being handed a $161.5 million parting gift, or to find satisfaction in his dramatic comeuppance. O'Neal's tendency to play golf by himself has been held up time and again as a sign of a disconnected and friendless manager who would eventually have been undone anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Market Casualties | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

With supplies booming, cocaine has pervaded Madrid's clubs and bars in the past two years. On a recent Saturday night in one of Madrid's hottest nightclubs, a long line formed outside the restrooms as people waited their turn to snort cocaine inside. "It's one of the most popular drugs, like ecstasy in other European countries," says Federico, a music producer in Madrid. "Most people sniff a line or two at weekends. You have a drink, you have dinner with friends, then you go to a club and share a gram or so of coke. It doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine Country | 6/27/2007 | See Source »

...drama series about an exemplary stay-at-home dad. Japan's print media has also decided that men need to be educated in a style of fathering hitherto unknown. Not long ago, the idea of a Japanese magazine about fathering might have been dismissed with a derisory snort. But last year saw the launch of two upscale glossies now duking it out for market share-Oceans and FQ. "The most frequent comment fathers make is, 'I've been waiting for a magazine like this,'" says FQ's advertising manager, Masashi Nakatomi. "Wives will say, 'My husband has become more aware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dads' Dilemma | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...Directors like Grant or Nancy Meyers (of The Holiday among other titles) want to keep their leading ladies unhysteric, as if descents into the irrational were somehow fuel for sexism. But the politely furrowed brow is fundamentally anti-dramatic. You want people in films like this to rip and snort their way to improbable, but somehow satisfying, resolutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: January: A Movie Wasteland | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...weapons are postmodern: improvised explosive devices, car bombs, suicide bombers. And the Iraq war is far deadlier; on almost any given day, casualty figures in Baghdad alone dwarf those in Lebanon and Israel combined. At the house TIME uses as its base in Baghdad, our staff of 25 Iraqis snort disdainfully as news broadcasters announce the daily death toll in the Levant. "They count their dead in dozens. We count ours in hundreds," says Ali al-Shaheen, our bureau manager. Only when Israeli bombs killed 28 people in the Lebanese village of Qana did it register on al-Shaheen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In Hell: A Baghdad Diary | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

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