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...weeks before her death and published six weeks after it. At 36, she looks lined and tired but engaged in her life's work of showing herself to the camera. Her body behind sheer strips of fabric shows the effects of dieting and gravity. Some of the workprints are X'd out -Monroe's nixing of their publication. It was both ghoulish and poignant to see the sex goddess in this post-mortem expos?, while her name was still in the headlines. It's eerie now to recall that whispers were already connecting her sexually with Jack Kennedy, subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Favorite Pornographer | 7/15/2006 | See Source »

...people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid The cover picture of al-Zarqawi with a red X on his face was insensitive and frankly revolting. To revel in the death of a fellow human being, no matter how hateful to you his actions may have been, is no way to encourage the cessation of terrorist activities or bring opposing parties to the mediation table. Ask any South African...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eton Reinvents Itself | 7/11/2006 | See Source »

Readers were skeptical about whether the killing of al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, would hasten the end of the war?and whether it merited the big-red-X treatment on our cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...found the cover image of al-Zarqawi's face covered by a red X extremely eye-catching but also troubling, as it reminded me of the May 7, 1945, issue of TIME, which had an image of Adolf Hitler and an almost identical X. I wonder if it is legitimate to compare al-Zarqawi with Hitler, the latter having far exceeded al-Zarqawi in his crimes against humanity. But then, it is a blessing that al-Zarqawi has been stopped before such a comparison really could be legitimate. Simon Nicholas Cologne, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/10/2006 | See Source »

...military." Yet that break was bought and paid for, and money talks. The world is rid of an evil, warped mind, but let's tell it like it is. Wilda Fonseca Avon, Massachusetts, U.S. I found the cover image of al-Zarqawi's face covered by a red X extremely eye-catching but also troubling, as it reminded me of the May 7, 1945, issue of Time, which had an image of Adolf Hitler and an almost identical X. I wonder if it is legitimate to compare al-Zarqawi with Hitler, the latter having far exceeded al-Zarqawi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of al-Zarqawi | 7/4/2006 | See Source »

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