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...MODIFY RUDE BEHAVIOR? People are more and more using the law to outlaw behavior that is merely annoying or disgusting. Cities are legislating against cell phones and smoking. To use the law to control that kind of behavior gives us a lot less freedom. Etiquette is voluntary. Its enforcement arm is disapproval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions For Judith Martin | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...stand upright. Hunched and shivering with fear, I scuttled over to the rail and clutched it. Do not let me die, I prayed, oh, please don’t let me die. As soon as I could rely on my legs again, I descended the 99 steps, dragging my arm against the cool, solid core of the tower to ground...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Spare Changes | 11/26/2002 | See Source »

...whiz in high school and was a member of the debate team, marching band and National Honor Society. He listened to heavy metal and at parties would rip phone books in half to impress the girls. Proud of his father's brief boxing career, he would often cock his arm and make ready to land a punch on your jaw, says a former classmate, Jacob Zamansky. Grubman's first job was in strategic planning at AT&T. He later became an analyst at PaineWebber but made his name at Salomon pounding the table for WorldCom in the mid-'90s, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Sandy Play Dirty? | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

Since the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, a fragmented al-Qaeda has been relying on its associate groups in Asia, the Middle East and the Caucuses to continue its fight. Of all these groups, Jemaah Islamiah (JI), al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian and Australian arm, has been by far the most active. The countries that took it least seriously until the Bali bombings?Indonesia, Australia and Thailand?are precisely where JI has had most freedom of movement. It's not hard to deduce why Bali struck JI as an ideal target. After all, JI was more constrained in mounting an operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tackling Terror | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

Throughout much of the first half, yards had come at a premium for Harvard. But Fitzpatrick assumed the reins of the Crimson offense with just under five minutes remaining in the second quarter and energized the Harvard attack, using both his arm and his legs to lead the Crimson to three third-quarter touchdowns...

Author: By David Mu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Second-half Savior Supplants Captain Rose One Last Time | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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