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Picture your favorite old, black and white horror movie: the innocent young girl is apprehensively peering around the corner or creeping up the creaky staircase; shadows flit across the wall; a door slams shut; just when you least expect it, Dracula jumps out and grabs our terrified heroine, complete with...

Author: By R. DEREK Wetzel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Midnight Organ Recital Pedals Through 'Potter' | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

Parker's characters are so tough and self-assured, you want to grab the lapels of their leather jackets and tell them, as Max Eastman once told Hemingway, to come out from behind the false hair on their chest. But Parker is always a breezy read, and in this, his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Novel Mysteries From Old Masters | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

He wore out his welcome in San Francisco - while a 49er he once stomped on the star at midfield in Texas Stadium - and was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles. There his great play was again tempered by public lashings of his quarterback and criticizing his coaches. He made amends by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Terrell Owens Attempt Suicide? | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

But for many, the celebration was tempered by memories of the suffering that took place on the same site barely more than a year ago, when the Superdome went in a matter of days from a shelter to a sweltering pit of human suffering after Hurricane Katrina flooded the surrounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Victory at the Superdome | 9/26/2006 | See Source »

Since they began to be announced last Wednesday, satisfaction over the verdicts has been tempered by frustration over the delay in delivering them. "It's a sign of complete failure that it's taken so long," says Ajai Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management, a New Delhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Long Delayed | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

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