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...fond hopes. Think of Robert Donat, suave fugitive of The 39 Steps, double-talking his way out of a political rally and into the clutches of the man with the missing fingertip. Or Cary Grant doing anything in almost any Hitchcock caper: wooing Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief, dodging a malefic crop duster in North by Northwest. Grant also adorned the genre's apogee, Stanley Donen's Charade, in which the star has five identities and a protective lust for Audrey Hepburn. Neat plotting, chic dialogue, a funny-grotesque supporting cast and enough frissons to send an audience...
...There is no doubt in his devotees' minds, for example, that Ismaelito, the king of the holy thugs, was a thief and one of the most wanted crooks of his time. Still, among many who knew him when he lived, he's considered more of a Robin Hood than a criminal. In El Guarataro, a shantytown in southeastern Caracas, those who knew him remember the time he raided a meat delivery truck and shared the bounty among his neighbors. "I was an errand boy," recalls Carlos Flores, 50. "He would steal, but he never killed. Today's malandro is mean...
Some ordinary Zimbabweans are no less defiant. In Warren Park, a western suburb of Harare, Mugabe's election posters have been defaced with messages such as MUGABE IMBAVHA (Mugabe is a thief) and HAULUME BOB (You won't get anything, Bob). Moyo remains determined. "I'm going to ask my wife and son to carry me to the polling station on June 27," he tells TIME. "I believe Zimbabwe will be free one day. I will exercise my right and continue to support the party of my choice." Zimbabwe's rulers may be dispensing with the pretense of democracy...
...deferred his acceptance for a year because of it—and had falsified his SATs and high school grades. Princeton had been taken in by a huge scam. Samuels artfully blends firsthand accounts, multiple documents, and personal observation to reveal that Hogue is not your average identity thief. While Hogue is a man who is deeply disturbed, compelled to lie and steal from anyone he could possibly rip off, Samuels carefully peels back the superficial labels of liar and fraud to discover a complicated individual. While in custody after being arrested at Princeton University, Hogue reveals his rationale...
...thought, what's that guy doing here? He ain't done nothing. I'm the real sinner." Wright had taught him that God loves sinners, too. "I learned that I wasn't born bad," and then he spoke on the passage in Mark, when Jesus turns to the thief next to him on the cross and says, "Verily ... though shalt be with me." Good Friday marks the holiest day of the year for many African-American Christians, according to Dwight Hopkins, a theologian at University of Chicago's Divinity School. The "strange fruit" that swung from Southern trees bears striking...