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...Front Runners Lacking Luster Joe Klein could not have been more wrong in stating "Most voters don't care if Hillary Clinton says 'I was wrong' about Iraq" [March 5]. After six years of Bush's refusal to admit having made a mistake, all voters, not just Democrats, understand that such a refusal is clear evidence of a lack of integrity. We the people will not elect another person who lacks the integrity to admit a mistake. Jules P. Kirsch, New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...Sometimes,” he says, “I got it wrong. There was one time we were talking about how much Christmas lights waste when they’re on and I got it wrong by a factor of two, and I had to admit and apologize for that...

Author: By Mark A. Pacult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'REP'-ping Green At Harvard | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...front of a sage like Shelomi, I couldn’t admit it, but I even have a favorite Division III basketball team—and I follow its games...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: A Look Into The Mind Of A Genius | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...bubblephobes out there—instead of hating us, please try to understand us. We are not here to do you harm; we merely want to float along in our solipsistic lives. Perhaps we are smug and elitist, but at least we admit it. You say you want to help “the common man.” But what the common man really wants is to be left alone by sanctimonious Harvard students like us. He has his NASCAR and Jesus Christ; we have our Radiohead and James Joyce. To each, his own bubble...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Confessions of a Bubble Boy | 3/13/2007 | See Source »

...None of that was illegal. So four years later, the Libby trial still prompts the question, Why did Libby get into legal trouble in the first place? Why did the Vice President's top aide not simply admit to what everyone knew was true - that he discussed the identity of Wilson's wife Valerie Plame, a CIA officer, with at least one reporter? Since most experts agree that Libby was unlikely to be prosecuted on a charge of revealing her identity, it is hard not to conclude that Libby cooked up his stories to protect Cheney. If Libby had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cheney's Fall From Grace | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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