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Chabon runs his fingers through his unkempt hair and looks up at the ceiling. He's one of those radiant-child adults, the kind you can imagine as the dreamy fourth-grader he must once have been. We're in his big Arts and Crafts-style house in Berkeley, Calif., with his wife Ayelet Waldman, a former public defender turned crime novelist, and their three children, Sophie, 7; Zeke, 5; and Ida-Rose, 16 months. Chabon and his wife live in a noisy, kid-centered world. Waldman's books are about a former public defender turned stay-at-home...
Person of the Week In the end, the 21-year-old kid with the close-cropped hair bore little resemblance to the wild-eyed, unkempt American Taliban captured by U.S. forces in Qala-i-Jangi, Afghanistan. JOHN WALKER LINDH pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy-the Taliban-and got 20 years in prison, killing what might have been the first major trial in the war on terror...
...declined to comment, a screener who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity confided, "For me, profiling is the only way to be conscientious in doing the job. I make decisions based on who I wouldn't like to be seated next to on an airplane. If someone is unkempt and nervous or if they look like they belong on a bus instead of a plane, if they wear a baseball cap backwards and, without question, if they look to be foreign or of Middle Eastern descent." And African Americans? No, he says, that would be discrimination...
...declined to comment, a screener who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity confided, "For me, profiling is the only way to be conscientious in doing the job. I make decisions based on who I wouldn't like to be seated next to on an airplane. If someone is unkempt and nervous or if they look like they belong on a bus instead of a plane, if they wear a baseball cap backwards and, without question, if they look to be foreign or of Middle Eastern descent." And African Americans? No, he says, that would be discrimination...
...From studios in Los Angeles, he makes regular broadcasts to Iran, which are watched avidly, though illegally, on satellite TV. In Iran, contact with Pahlavi is treated as a criminal offense. But in a land where people are used to seeing leaders slumped in their chairs, often unshaven and unkempt, his well-cut suits and boundless energy send a message. "Maybe he can't save Iran," says a Tehran housewife, "but at least he leaves us some dignity...