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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sick comic, the sullen stoolie who talks in the guarded whisper of cell block and exercise yard ... HE IS HARD-MUSCLED, HANDSOME, HANDY WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38, AND HIS HIDE IS AS TOUGH AS THE BLUING ON A PISTOL BARREL. Decent, disillusioned and altogether incredible, he is a soap opera Superman. He is television's 'Private Eye.' Smarter than the cops, craftier than the crooks, too quick to be caught and domesticated by the classiest doll, TV's private detective runs second to only one competitor in the race for ratings. So far, in a season riddled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...governmental agency CARE, which helps grandmothers caring for children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS. The program, which Obama has personally helped finance with a donation of some $13,000, gives loans to grandmothers who can use the money to run small small businesses - selling soap, for instance - and then pay the capital back with interest. The revolving funds, known as voluntary savings and loan, should keep growing and help more and more people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Barack Obama Can Do For Africa — and Vice Versa | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...miss and the new faces of the season. Those are people who, by the time winter cracks its knuckles, we expect to be full-fledged members of the pop-culture A team. Some, like Craig, you may already vaguely know, and others, like America Ferrera on the ABC soap-com Ugly Betty, are brand-new and promising faces. Maybe fall is going to get hot after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Unavoidable, Unmissable and Uncovered This Fall | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...fans are amazing! They want to know what these characters do between the books. That's one of the things that's fun about a series. You get hooked into it, just like a soap opera. You have an emotional investment in those characters. They ask questions like, Does Ranger have chest hair? Well, he does if you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life at the Top...of the Bestseller List | 8/9/2006 | See Source »

...kids were still having breakfast when she began. First was "Perfect Paul," the 3-year-old who had been her most joyful and least trouble. He died in seconds, held violently underwater by the mother whose hands had carefully washed his hair so that the soap would not sting his eyes. She carried his soaked body to her bed, tucking him beneath a maroon blanket, his head on the pillows. After Paul, she drowned Luke, 2, and moved on to John, 5. Next she killed their baby sister Mary, whom she had distracted with a bottle so she wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

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