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...school after Betty rejected me and the true reinvention of my life are remarkable. My comic strip was just like the magazine--an idealized story of my life, with myself at center stage. I reinvented myself as this other person and used the magazine as the promotional tool to accomplish that. Instead of the Puritan world that my folks accepted and, from my perspective, paid the price for, I created a world for myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner tells how he created an identity in order to fulfill his dreams | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

What did Tall 'Afar accomplish? At best, the picture is mixed. McMaster did succeed in driving the insurgents out, denying al-Qaeda its Tall 'Afar base and disrupting its networks. Intelligence picked up in Tall 'Afar led to the arrest last week of Abu Fatima, al-Qaeda's military emir in Mosul. The cost in U.S. lives was minimal: only four died in the two weeks of fighting since Sept. 2. At the same time, many of the insurgents who had holed up in the city got away because of the indecision of Iraqi political leaders. And while the Pentagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing the Ghosts | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...political parties, the legislators will lack the clout that might come from working in unison, fears Joanna Nathan, senior Afghanistan analyst for the International Crisis Group (ICG), an international think tank dedicated to preventing conflict. "That's going to make for a horribly weak and paralyzed body unable to accomplish anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman's Place | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...liked, I want to be respected.? But you?re the opposite - you want to be liked more than you want to be respected. Why? I don?t know how you can play for somebody you didn?t like. I don?t know how you can ever accomplish anything, and be able to do your best, if you didn?t like or care about the person that was your coach. I do think you can be liked and respected as well. They?re going to see my passion for the game, and they?re going to realize I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Larry Brown | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...wants to raise pressure on Tehran by referring the matter to the UN Security Council for action, but the EU and others are reluctant to agree because they fear this will accomplish little, and could scuttle any attempts at a peaceful solution. In addition, countries such as Malaysia, Argentina and Brazil that have their own peaceful uranium enrichment programs do not want to put those programs at risk by sanctioning Iran for activities permitted under the NPT. That could make it difficult for the 35 members of the IAEA to achieve the consensus necessary to refer Iran to the Security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Steps in the Iran Nuclear Standoff | 8/10/2005 | See Source »

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