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Despite my liberal credentials as a Volvo-driving, pro-choice, gay-marriage-supporting urban dweller, I admit to an inner conflict when it comes to guns. I grew up surrounded by firearms and the boys who loved them. My father is a bona fide hunting nut who threatened to buy my son a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association for his first birthday. I myself have mowed down a variety of defenseless woodland creatures. I used to be a decent shot with a pistol, and once during the Clinton years, I spearheaded an outing of lefty political scribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shoot First, Regret Legislation Later | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...that he supported tax cuts only in general--not the Bush tax cuts--has also tarnished his credibility. "What the U.S. needs is a truly politically independent central banker," says Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach. "When Greenspan expresses his opinions on nonmonetary policy issues, whether he wants to admit it or not, he becomes identified as an advocate and it influences the decision making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenspan's Deficits | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...remains might be Yokata's. I am deeply shocked that I have heard nothing of that in the Japanese media. From the very beginning, Japan has handled the case of the kidnapped Japanese citizens very clumsily, if not slightly dishonestly. The Japanese government does not have the courage to admit that it made a mistake. Takashi Moriyama Chigasaki, Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...Spelke brought up some key points,” said Parvinder S. Thiara ’07, who sported a Che-Summers shirt for the event. “But she did admit, and I think it’s important, that at the highest level, there was no discrimination...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Spar on ‘Innate Differences’ | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...like much of the electorate, was unmoved-and unimpressed by Blair's fortitude in sticking to his unpopular position on the war. Most Brits consider the Prime Minister's decision to follow George Bush into Iraq under "false pretenses" weak and mendacious rather than principled. Indeed, Blair's advisers admit they are worried that women, strong Labour supporters in the past, now see the Prime Minister as shifty. Hence, the frantic attempts to salve the wounds of Schoolgate Mums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blair Legacy: Not Exactly Piffle | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

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