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...Interior have long been seen as a de facto wing of the Mahdi Army. National police are suspected of taking part in the militia's sectarian killings in Baghdad. And in southern Iraq, where al-Sadr is powerful, infiltration of U.S.-trained Iraqi units is common. But even the wariest Americans have trouble believing that Iraqis who look them in the face each day could muster the audacity to try to kill them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ambush in Karbala | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

Having one's heart warmed is a chilling experience not always avoidable by even the wariest cynic. A shameless manipulator in the hot-ventricle dodge is Michael Dorris, who 10 years ago, as a first novelist, gave us Rayona Taylor, the 15-year-old, part black, part Native American heroine of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. You couldn't help falling for Rayona. She was plucky, pretty, buffeted by fate (her Indian mother Christine dies during the novel, and Elgin, her lackadaisical black father, is seldom seen) and crazy enough to enter a bronco-riding contest disguised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: STORMY LEGACY | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Some of the wariest opponents of the no-frills movement are prison wardens and guards, who must live with convicts at close range and say they like to have a variety of options to keep simmering lockups from exploding. That need is especially strong now that the increasingly popular practice of imposing mandatory sentences, a response to public anger over inadequate prison terms, is making it harder to offer time off as a reward for good behavior. To ban such things as TV and recreation as well, warns warden Thomas McKinney of the Alfred Hughes state prison unit in Gatesville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE REAL HARD CELL | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

...innocent in body, and blank of mind. A young gallant wrecks the plan. Horace (David Dukes) catches sight of Agnes, falls in love with her, trysts with her and eventually wins her to wife. The cream of the jest is that he enlists Arnolphe as a coconspirator, and that wariest of foxes helps to outfox himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Laughing Cure | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

...industry is the Bear Archery Co. The main tourist attraction is the new $350,000 Fred Bear Museum. Though Bear has stopped a four-ton bull elephant with a single arrow, shot polar bear in the Arctic and Bengal tiger in the jungles of India, he claims that "the wariest, craftiest and hardest game of all to hunt is the white-tailed deer of North America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Of Bear, Bow & Buck | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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