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...what it means in Japanese, one of his frequent, meandering asides which he plays for laughs from the small audience of police officers and reporters in the courtroom. The atmosphere is markedly informal. The prosecutor goes over a witness' testimony as he delivers it; the defense and prosecution attorneys lean over to chat with each other during the proceedings. Qasab's co-defendants chat with the guards who surround them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year After the Massacre, a Trial Plods On | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

...strength training, yoga and meditation. (Ponwar insists that all officers who still have a paunch by the end of the course are failed.) To dispel officers' fear of the jungle, the forces are taught how to catch (and eat) snakes, distinguish edible plants from poisonous ones and make camouflaged lean-tos out of sticks and leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Steps Up Its Fight Against Naxalites | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

With chocolate chip cookies, raspberry tea, and tables to lean against, the setting encouraged open discussion, questions, and humor. The feel was intimate yet friendly, with opportunity for one-on-one conversations with some of the top professors in the study of the brain...

Author: By Alex C. Nunnelly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘CommuniTea’ Briefs Students About MMB | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...even if it's different from Roald Dahl's children's story about a fox clever enough to outwit three mean farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean, one fat, one short, one lean (no one can say that just once). Dahl's spirit is there, but the cinematic Fantastic Mr. Fox comes fortified with Andersonian pouting, parental issues, self doubt and philosophical conundrums. "Who am I, Kylie?" Mr. Fox (voiced by George Clooney) muses to the sidekick Anderson has created for him, an opossum voiced by Wally Wolodarksy - then clarifies: "I'm saying this as an existential question." (Read about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson's Return to Form | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...addition to all these public battles, Reid is waging private ones as well, according to sources on and off Capitol Hill. He has complained to colleagues that the White House has pressured him to lean on the CBO to speed its cost estimates of the measure - something that could easily be seen as exerting improper influence on the CBO's calculations, which are supposed to be free of political pressure. And he has been pleading with liberal interest groups to ease up on Senator Joe Lieberman - an independent whom Reid counts as part of his 60-member caucus - over Lieberman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Senate's Turn: Can Democrats Close the Health Care Deal? | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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