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Much wailing and gnashing of teeth greeted presidential candidates’ record-smashing first-quarter fundraising totals. Hillary led the pack with $26 million, Obama followed with $25 million, and Romney also cleared $20 million. Both parties’ candidates collected a total of over $125 million—and there are still 9 months before the Iowa caucus...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Filthy Lucre and Clean Elections | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...rather a 70-year-old doctor who had gone to our medical school before there was penicillin. He'd lived out his career someplace in Western New York - someplace where he was The Doctor. Our guest had done it all: took out gallbladders and appendices, delivered babies, pulled teeth, set fractures, pinned hips, even opened skulls when the pressing blood threatened his patients' lives. The rest of the team was clearly a little bored with this Jack of all Trades. He noticed it and I flushed with embarrassment for him. I connected with this little man. Head, hands and heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Special is Too Special? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...formally in custody, Iranians are already weighing the long-term impact of the crisis. "One result might be that the U.S. gets the message that diplomacy is more effective than force," says Mohebbian. "If you can untie a knot with your hands, you're better off than using your teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tehran Sees the Standoff as Over | 4/3/2007 | See Source »

...Palestinian officials. They told TIME that Hamas - despite its public commitment to a new coalition government with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - has used a five-month cease-fire with Israeli forces to stage an unprecedented arms build-up in the Gaza strip. "They're armed to the teeth," said one senior U.S. official. "This is not like your average little militia." Indeed, one Israeli official said that, in recent months, Hamas has sent "dozens" of militants to Iran for advanced training in weapons that can destroy aircraft and tanks. Hamas insists that Iranian aid comes solely in the form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Hamas Preparing for War? | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

...orchestra pit. (Rim shot.) Life with Hutton was just as perilous in Hollywood. She cracked three ribs getting tossed about by acrobats in the movie Incendiary Blonde. Her exuberance often injured her co-stars; she knocked out one actor, made another faint away, separated Hope's caps from his teeth. "When they work with me," she told TIME, "they gotta get insurance policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Betty Got Frank | 3/31/2007 | See Source »

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