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...muster similar strength to teach their kids and the vendors that the availability of soda is not a right. Some people lament the loss of revenue from the drink machines, but since when did revenue rate higher than the health of our kids? We as a nation must accept that until we change our eating habits and teach our children how to make better eating choices, we will not resolve our health problems. Julie Whitlock Richmond, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, when asked by a reporter for Germany's Der Spiegel magazine if he stood by the claim he made last year calling the Holocaust "a myth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...projects, just as he has successfully done. "I've seen that there are lots of preconceived ideas and prejudices out there to stop you from doing what you want if you give in to them," Koné says. "Perhaps my strength is that I don't accept those limits." Airness's founder insists there'd be a lot more chances to go around if rigid French attitudes could limber up in U.S. style. "In America, if a 15-year-old kid from the Bronx has a million-dollar idea, there's no debate about what's possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hippest Cat in France | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...reported on TIME.com last week, a June 1 London Stock Exchange filing by ArmorGroup International, a London-based security firm where Kappes has worked since April 2005, confirms that he plans to rejoin the CIA. The company said Kappes "will be leaving the Group in early June 2006 to accept the position of deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spy Returns to the CIA Fold | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...wrote The Crimson in November 1955. “It was reported that ‘2 women of ill fame’ had ‘spent the night in a certain College chamber.’”Although many members of the Class of 1956 accepted these restrictions as a sign of the times, the alleviation of these rules still elicited the attention of the Student Council, house masters, and deans.‘WAR’ FOR FREEDOMFor the Class of 1956, most members had come to accept parietals as a way of life, marking...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Meet Me in My Room...but not past 7 p.m. | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

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