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But have his readers made sense of Ved Mehta?and, in doing so, learned something about themselves? In The Red Letters, as in much of Continents of Exile, Mehta's prose is so polished that readers skate smoothly upon it?without ever breaking the surface, falling in, and getting lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Return to Exile | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

It's an old story: boy meets girl, girl turns out to be his mother, boy kills father. Sophocles told it 2,400 years ago, as have many authors since. But few have tackled the Oedipal tale with as much wit, verve and retail success as Japan's Haruki Murakami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Raining Sardines | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Bram Cohen was an unusual kid. While other first-graders were outside playing, he was writing computer code. By junior high, he could solve Rubik's Cube in a few minutes. A college dropout, he went on to co-found a hacker's convention in San Francisco. "I was always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downloading Hollywood | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

I suppose I can make room in my heart for another "downtrodden" minority, the twixters. Poor babies. If only their parents had cut the golden apron strings and left them to their own devices, they would have learned to be more independent. I will immediately write to Congress and demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 2005 | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Who else did business with this merchant of menace? The list of suspected nuclear clients is dizzying. Investigators believe that as head of Pakistan's main nuclear-research laboratory, Khan traveled the world for more than a decade, visiting countries in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. According to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Sold the Bomb | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

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