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...Many people have begun asking why the radical who so boldly stands up to the U.S. can't confront the violent crime that plagues the country and leaves scores dead each weekend. "I know in my heart that life is better here than it was 10 years ago," says Tobías Caravallo, 42, who owns an electronics repair shop in La Silsa and is a devoted Chavista. But "we need more police on the streets. Better police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo Chávez: Man With No Limits? | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

...other vantage point of Tob Dara, we were told later, ITN's Julian Manion proclaimed loudly to his editors that he was in serious danger broadcasting from the roof of the mosque. The biggest danger was the roof collapsing. And a radio correspondent who slipped into a local house to file reported getting half stoned on second hand fumes from marijuana being consumed by the residents. On the way back from Sinjeddarah our hopes of a relatively full night's sleep were dashed when the car broke down. We dozed fitfully until something picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Diary: Talking Dirty With the Taliban | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

...feejee' mermaid stayed in the BostonMuseum for the next 40 years. In 1897 it wasdonated toB...

Author: By Kathrine A. Meyers, | Title: HARVARD'S LITTLE MERMAID: A MODERN-DAY ODYSSEY | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...want--money, women, success. Dapper (Stephen Kolzak) is a boring dandy of an accountant who wants to be successful as a gambler; he winds up with a blindfold over his eyes, gingerbread stuffed in his mouth, and a dead mouse in his fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson make fun of someone simply because he's not too bright and wants to prosper. Sir Epicure Mammon (Spito Veloudos) has always been the character in the play...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: While the Cat's Away . . . | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Rabbi Schneersohn is head of a Hasidic sect (150,000 in the U. S.) called the Habad. Hasidism is the faith which Baal Shem Tob, Polish mystic and healer of the 18th Century, offered to downtrodden Jews who had turned away from the dogmatic formalism of their rabbis. The Hasid sang, danced, took joy in his faith, felt himself close to God. At his worst a dreamy, soft-handed, mystical fellow, the Hasid became the butt of many an Eastern European joke. After the time of Baal Shem Tob there arose a Habad ("rational") Hasidism, which urged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rabbi from Warsaw | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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