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...rest of the world hostage. And while Khan is viewed by many in Pakistan as a national hero for developing the country's nuclear weapons program, his rogue dealings have simultaneously helped advance nuclear proliferation in some potentially dangerous hotspots. (Read TIME's A. Q. Khan cover story "The Merchant of Menace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A.Q. Khan | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...Although most people questioned in an unscientific survey on the streets of Tehran said they won't vote for Ahmadinejad, many believed that the incumbent would still carry the rural areas. "He's been good to the provinces," says sportswear merchant Ali Paykani, 53. "He's laid water and gas pipelines, and given them agricultural loans. Here in the bazaar, no one wants him to be president again, but these elections are decided by the people in the provinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: A Familiar Face to Challenge Ahmadinejad | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

...England, a fierce storm hit the fleet, first separating the Victory from the other ships, and then sinking it, reportedly near the Channel Islands. The 1,100 sailors on board, as well as the sons of some of Britain's most prestigious families who had signed on for the merchant adventure, disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The HMS Victory, Famed Shipwreck, Is Found | 2/2/2009 | See Source »

...Monday the U.S. district attorney's office in Central Islip, N.Y., arrested Nicholas Cosmo, founder and owner of Agape World Inc. and Agape Merchant Advance LLC in Hauppauge, N.Y., charging him with a $370 million mail fraud. Agape claims it has been in the business of providing private bridge loans to commercial real estate companies and builders. The Feds don't seem to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Ponzi Scheme? Money Manager Cosmo Busted | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...like a baron: David Baron was his stage name. (He would keep acting, off and on, for the rest of his life.) It allowed him to prep for the stage characters he would create, since, as he told Gussow, "I always played the sinister parts." In 1956 he married Merchant, an actress whose acute rendition of spiky hauteur made her the perfect interpreter of such Pinter women as the "wife" in The Homecoming. In 1980 he would leave her for the novelist-historian Lady Antonia Fraser. Within three years Merchant had drunk herself to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

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