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...TIME's reporting proves that the Chinese farmers are afraid. Their protests are peaceful, but they are still beaten and killed by the police. If the government responded this way in the U.S., riots would break out. The Chinese seem almost to have accepted that they can't do anything. Their government controls them completely, and that is manifestly unfair. Amrita Jagpal West Chester, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and pushed to hire producer Sam (Squeak E. Clean) Spiegel, the brother of her then boyfriend, director Spike Jonze, Zinner and Chase reluctantly went along. The trio recalls the writing process--which did not go well--with uncomfortable courtesy, as if they're afraid to say anything that might be misconstrued as an insult and regurgitated later. "There were a lot of crackheads near Sam's recording studio," says Zinner. That is the nicest thing he has to offer about the making of the album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Taking On the Naysayers | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...father returned to Afghanistan three years ago after spending many years in Germany and Pakistan he was a stranger to her. "He said he was my father but he hasn't behaved like a father since he came back to Afghanistan. He threatens us and we are all afraid of him and he doesn't believe in the religion of Islam," her statement said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abdul Rahman's Family Values | 3/29/2006 | See Source »

...bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore time's reporting proves that the Chinese farmers are afraid. Their protests are peaceful, but they are still beaten and killed by the police. If the government responded this way in the U.S., riots would break out. The Chinese seem almost to have accepted that they can't do anything. Their government controls them completely, and that is manifestly unfair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Gathering Storm | 3/28/2006 | See Source »

...alone and notice a couple of young black guys heading in my direction, I intentionally do not cross the street. I don?t clutch my bag a little tighter, or keep a hand on the rape whistle on my keychain. I want them to know that I?m not afraid of them. Or, more to the point, that they?re not universally feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: How We're All Victims of Racial Profiling | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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