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...ever-twinkling eyes widen. "And then he'll see a big spread on the lost children of Brazil, which is followed by a double-page photograph for Chanel perfume." Knocking his knuckles once on the table, Toscani, 65, lets out a short bark of a laugh. "Our archaeologist will wonder what the hell was going on back then!" This is the perspective behind his best-known advertisements, which have featured AIDS patients and death-row inmates in marketing campaigns aimed at selling bright wool sweaters and blue jeans. "All I've done is put a news photo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliviero Toscani: Never Far From Controversy | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...jaded nerd screamers My Chemical Romance also make bad music, but at the very least their products are aggressive in their mediocrity. Their albums are interesting in the way the Weimar Republic and Crystal Pepsi are interesting: in 20 years people will look back on their work and wonder bemusedly just what everyone involved was thinking...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jimmy Eat World | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...looked even less happy to be there than I was. Eventually his owners took him away, clearly realizing that it would be considered cruelty to animals to force him to listen to any more speeches. As I stood there, feeling all sensation leave my extremities, I began to wonder: Would I—or President Faust—be having a better time if I were male...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Effortlessly What? | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...might wonder, though, how accepting the parade and its merry crowd would have been if a group of Burmese dissenters, or even a serious group of concerned Americans, had voiced its desire to march in the parade. After all, they wouldn’t be any fun. Who wants to deal with real issues during a parade? Oktoberfest is supposed to be about jollity and getting drunk. After all, if anyone really wants to protest, they can set up a soapbox in the square and hand out fliers—a far more effective and publicly acceptable way of voicing...

Author: By Edward J. Martin | Title: An Endangered Privilege | 10/14/2007 | See Source »

Gore's win was widely expected, but there may still be those who wonder how an environmentalist could be, as the Peace Prize's description goes, the person who has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations." They shouldn't. Climate change is already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. (Nor are Gore and the IPCC the first greens to win the Peace Prize; that would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Green Tipping Point | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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