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...could be bought. But there were always a few around who could be rented for a time. There was a simple test in the offices where I worked: if something offered to us could also be given to the average person - a pencil, calendar, ballpoint pen - we could accept it. If something was offered to us because we worked in Congress, we turned it down. Football tickets, meals in expensive restaurants or golf outings like Abramoff paid for are not offered free of charge to the average person. Gary K. Madson Lancaster, Virginia, U.S. Time's headline said...
...must take actions that make it clear that it is committed to working towards peace in the Middle East, such as demonstrating a willingness to engage in negotiations towards coexistence. As German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said, “Germany expects all political forces that carry responsibility to accept the preconditions for political activity. That means for me, firstly, that Israel’s right to existence is recognized, and secondly, there is no use of violence.” Should Hamas fail to make these reforms after a short grace period, the Quartet should cease contributing...
...harder case to make, though, that taking liberties is a crime against viewers, who widely accept that the shows use the term reality loosely. True, the shows sell themselves as more authentic than scripted programming. But in a recent TIME poll, only 30% of respondents believed that the shows largely reflect what really happened, and 25% of them believed that the programs are almost totally fabricated. More than half said accuracy was not a factor in their enjoyment of reality TV. Fans watch Laguna Beach, for instance, not for facts about LC, Kristin and Stephen's lives...
...foundation, and that a direct descendant of Onassis would have the automatic right to that role provided he or she had the "capacity to serve" and was "willing to serve," according to legal documents obtained by Time. "The executors [of the will] had no option than to accept her terms," says Papadimitriou. "They would have had to take Christina to court to force her to hand over the part [of the fortune earmarked] for the foundation...
...Jerusalem at all. "This is the same as allowing Iraqi voters to vote for Al Qaeda and Zarqawi in a polling station in the Iraqi embassy in Washington D.C." far right-wing Knesset member Effi Eitam, part of one small protest, told Time. "If any single American can accept this then I'd like to know his name. This is a comedy of democracy. We are allowing murderers to be elected in the Holy City of Jerusalem...