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...people if we go back to war." The militias had asked him if they could do just that, he added. "They said this country was won by the barrel of the gun and should we let it go at the stroke of a pen? Should one just write an X and then the country goes just like that?" This indivisibility of the interests of party and country has become a common regime refrain. On May 29, army Chief of Staff Martin Chedondo was quoted in the Herald telling his men their job was to defend ZANU-PF. "If you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Mugabe: A Despot's Cruel Resolve | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...covering Governor Mario Cuomo and Tim was his chief aide and alter ego. In 1984, I wrote a Rolling Stone profile of Russert called "A Man This Good Is Hard to Find." He spent 25 years ribbing me about the headline of that story, and I didn't even write it. Now I wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Russert Became Russert | 6/14/2008 | See Source »

...with bad reviews (on a website for sex connoisseurs). Her friends tend to be other service pros: bar managers, boutique clerks, concierges. She earns £105,000 (more than $200,000) a year, pays 40% to a snooty female "agent" and exchanges, ahem, services with her tax preparer. (She writes him a check and he gives her cash back, so that she can get a receipt and write off the tax-prep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Call Girl | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...there's an awful lot that I consider to be off-limits. I never write about me having sex. I mean, if someone talks about having sex, that's great, that's where it's at. But I would never talk about myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for David Sedaris | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

Whenever I write about anyone in my family, I give them the story to read first. And I ask if there's anything they want me to change or get rid of. But you can never anticipate how people are going to read what you've written. You can write something with affection, but that doesn't necessarily mean that people are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for David Sedaris | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

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