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Steps away, thousands of protesters, including students from right-leaning private universities, marched in front of the presidential palace, carrying signs calling Colom an "assassin" and demanding his resignation. The competing protests are the most visible sign of a politically charged environment that has the potential to cause Colom to resign, Isaacs says. "This country has for so long been paralyzed by the pervasive violence and the potent mix of gangs and narcotraffickers," she says. "Now that paralysis has turned into rage. And if these demonstrations pick up momentum, they could have a snowball effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Video from the Grave Sends Guatemala into Crisis | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...arms. The novelist's official fan site boasts over 47,000 crazed Palahniuk-heads who openly refer to themselves as the Cult and sell book-tour T shirts the way music acts sell concert tees. His latest book, Pygmy, follows the terror plot of an adolescent foreign-exchange student/secret assassin as he infiltrates and tries to destroy middle America. Palahniuk talked to TIME about the new novel, how he accidentally offended the entire nation of Germany and what he really thinks of the Cult. (Read TIME's 2002 article about Chuck Palahniuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...independence movement that isn't his?" Drago Hedl, a journalist for the Croatian newspaper Morning Paper who interviewed Rozsa in 1991 and 1992 several times, tells TIME. "And now I wonder, why would a man who writes poetry and wants to be an actor end up as an assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: The Bizarre Life and Death of a Failed Assassin | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...over an hour outside his target’s locked door, Gorman finally managed to shoot a bullet from his dart gun through the narrow gap between the door and the carpet, hitting his unsuspecting victim's foot and earning eternal glory. Now that’s a true assassin...

Author: By Liyun Jin | Title: Closing in on the Kill | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...Taxi Driver? The gun love, the quiet surliness, the loner status, the head whisperings, the mistaken fashioning of other people's motives into paranoid scenarios - all echo the violent cabbie in Martin Scorsese's movie, whose script was inspired by the diary of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of Governor George Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Observe and Report: Travis Bickle, Mall Cop | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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