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...also affected by the so far inconclusive fate of his most highly publicized project, a diamond-encrusted skull he unveiled last year called For the Love of God. As a trope for human folly and cupidity, a glittering death's head is as tired as it gets. Hirst's twist, such as it was, was to have the thing manufactured at a stratospheric level of crass luxury - a platinum skull layered with 8,601 diamonds - then to offer the poisoned apple to the world's billionaires for $100 million. At that price level it would not only be the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damien Hirst: Bad Boy Makes Good | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...book has four sections, and in each section there's a major plot twist that has a strong resemblance to an event in the real life of George and Laura Bush - or Laura Bush, I should say; not all of it is George's. But then everything else is made up. There's a chapter where Charlie Blackwell is drinking heavily, and he buys the baseball team and gives up drinking and finds religion, and obviously those have George Bush parallels. But there's all this other stuff that has to do with a Princeton reunion, and Alice Blackwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Curtis Sittenfeld | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...year after leaving the White House under the pall of an electoral setback and a congressional investigation, Karl Rove - hero of the right, scourge of the left - is back. With a twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karl Rove's Campaign for Himself | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

Ultimately, the Ruyi always evades discovery. But the real treasure is in experiencing a fun new twist on sightseeing in the Eternal City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italian Magical Mystery Tour | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...might have seemed like patriotism gone wild when two members of Georgia's men's beach-volleyball team stitched the nicknames "Geor" and "Gia" onto their uniforms, spelling out the name of their team's besieged nation. But there's a twist: neither of the players is Georgian by birth - 2.04-m Renato Gomes and 1.92-m Jorge Terceiro are towering Brazilian imports recruited by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for the sole purpose of playing for his country in the Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of the Mercenary Athlete | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

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