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...uses her appeal to simultaneously flirt with and taunt the gambler across the table. And when the cards turn against her, Leslie is quick to hit on Elizabeth, who has naively mentioned a $2200 stash of her own. Thus begins a wary comradeship where it's hard to tell who's lying and who's telling the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Skies and Blueberry Nights | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...time he decided not to seek a rematch against Bush]. He's moved on, at least for the time being." In recent months, as Gore moneymen were recruited by other campaigns, they checked in with Gore. "I said, 'If I'm raising money for the wrong person, please tell me,'" says one. "Everyone asked that question, and his answer was always the same: 'Don't keep your money in your pocket waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Temptation of Al Gore | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...real reason I wrote the book," he begins, "is that I've tried for years to tell the story of the climate crisis, and it has taken far too long to get through. When the best evidence is compiled and there's no longer room for dragging out a pointless argument, we're raised as Americans to believe our democracy is going to respond. But it hasn't responded. We're still not doing anything. So I started thinking, What's going on here?" While Gore was mulling that, another test of American democracy presented itself-the walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Temptation of Al Gore | 5/16/2007 | See Source »

...inmates tell it, Venezuela's prisons are run not by the guards, but by the prisoners - and guns and drugs have become common currency inside prison walls. At the nearby male prison, which holds three times its capacity of prisoners, shoot-outs are a regular occurrence. Frightened foreign inmates say the understaffed, underarmed guards cannot stem the violence and do not even clean off the blood marks splattered across the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela's U.N. for Drug Traffickers | 5/15/2007 | See Source »

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