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...learned yesterday that the ruling party in Egypt maintained their huge majority, and consequently, the efforts of those who gave their lives in an effort to cast their votes did not actually affect any real change in their nation, but died trying...
...also brought a new generation of young writers to TIME and made it a fun and exciting place to work. As a result, today's TIME is a crisply written, deeply reported magazine that captures the magic and fascination of a wide variety of stories and trends that affect our lives...
...that much more electrifying. "Any story is more powerful if you can relate to it in your own life," says Shyamalan. "In The Sixth Sense my approach was, Don't light the hallways with blue scary lights. Nobody's hallway looks like that, so it's not going to affect people. Make it look like your hallway when the lights go down. Now put someone walking through it when they're not supposed to be there. Now it'll bother you when you go home...
...Plan Colombia changes the spectrum of the conflict. The military component will affect us, but it affects us less than the guerrillas. We control about 25,000 hectares in Santander province and another 20,000 in south Bolivar - coca zones that we won in battle from the FARC and the ELN [the smaller leftist National Liberation Front]. We're not opposed to eradicating the coca fields, but as long as those crops are there, and guerrillas are nearby, we'll keep asking for a tax from the coca growers. This doesn't mean we're narcos. We don't export...
...says he and his classmates wanted to "influence the law school's attempt to affect those changes." And, he adds, "the place is definitely improving. There's a strong feeling that we have affected change...