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...point where you thought, This is too much. I can't take this - I'm gonna go write about something nicer? Oh yep. I remember going out there and thinking Neal was this ghastly person. His slogan was "Praying for Death." He'd say that every morning he'd wake up and pray for death, and it would just keep coming. He'd get delighted when he received a phone call about a shotgun suicide. I remember thinking he was this mean, horrible character. And then the same thing happened to me. I was trying to write a book that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Clean Up a Crime Scene | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...agents are everywhere. They're with me when I go for a walk, they follow me home after work, and if I wake up in the middle of the night, they're just a phone call away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...Adds Takako Hosomi, president of Princess House Inc., whose clients demand that their living spaces be transformed to mimic 18th-century European palaces: "It's every girl's dream to wake up on a splendid canopy bed with a kiss from a handsome prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Princesses Preen in a Pauper Economy | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...what happened when Cullen decided to drill deeper into ground others had determined to be dry: "[B]y midnight, when Cullen lay down by the derrick to grab some sleep, they had penetrated the slushy, oil-bearing sand underneath...Four hours later Cullen heard Brown shout: "Wake up, Mr Cullen. I think she's coming in!" In the dim predawn light Cullen rose to see oil and gas spewing so violently from their hole that the four-inch flow line, which connected the well to a storage tank, had come loose and was wildly slashing the air. Cullen dashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Rich | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

...most serious issue has been Bruni's reported involvement in two recent cases of blocked extraditions of convicted Italian leftist terrorists, who had taken refuge in France under a special amnesty law signed by then-President Francois Mitterrand in the wake of Italy's so-called "Years of Lead" violence in the 1970s and 1980s. Bruni admitted in October that she and her older sister had urged Sarkozy to block the scheduled extradition of Marina Petrella, who was suffering from severe depression and weight loss. Sarkozy, who'd come to office vowing to force the return of convicted Italian terrorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's First Lady Carla Bruni: A Traitor to Italy? | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

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