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...cost tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi lives and is sure to cost many more. The media were asleep at the switch during the run-up to that war and appear to be repeating the same mistake. Wake up, America. Don't let it happen again. Tad Hardee Afton, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...cost tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi lives and is sure to cost many more. The media were asleep at the switch during the run-up to that war and appear to be repeating the same mistake. Wake up, America! Don't let it happen again. Tad Hardee Afton, Virginia, U.S. It is a sad indictment of our society that we are already asking questions about "What war with Iran would look like" rather than "What diplomacy with Iran would entail." Matthew D. Hindman Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. Every country knows it would be bombed back to the Stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chilling Preview of War | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 16, 2006 | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

Sure, the mob took over Russia, plutonium slipped into suspect hands, and the Balkans exploded, but the worst side effect of the end of the cold war is that beating the Russians has lost its meaning. If this were 1968 and an oversize farm boy from Afton, Wyo., beat Alexander Karelin, a giant 286-lb. Russian Greco-Roman wrestler who hadn't lost a match in 13 years, then Rulon Gardner would have his own Wheaties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greco-Roman Wrestling: United States: Rulon Gardner | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...gained his strength by working on his parents' dairy farm every day after school. "By the end of high school, I was carrying four bales of hay, a hundred pounds each, just walking with them," he said. After making the Olympic squad, he raised some $25,000 from Afton locals for the family trip to Sydney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greco-Roman Wrestling: United States: Rulon Gardner | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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