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...countless more who are dying as I write this, your story is too late. Elizabeth M. Camp London Your selection of photographs from Congo is simply devastating. Why is the world so silent? The U.S. is spending billions of dollars fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but to what avail? If the Bush Administration really cares about establishing democracy around the world, it is concentrating on the wrong region. Kris Sahay Winnipeg, Canada Those of us who live and work in Congo sometimes have difficulty understanding why so little attention is paid to one of the world's worst humanitarian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadliest War in the World | 6/22/2006 | See Source »

Your selection of photographs from Congo is simply devastating. Why is the world so silent? The U.S. is spending billions of dollars fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but to what avail? If the Bush Administration really cares about establishing democracy around the world, it is concentrating on the wrong region. KRIS SAHAY Winnipeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 26, 2006 | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...Organization (WTO), Western governments are pressuring Moscow to crack down on counterfeiting. Yet the trade is flourishing. "We've put very high-level pressure on the Russians to deal with this," says a Bush administration official. Two Bush cabinet heads have discussed allofmp3.com with Russian government ministers, to no avail, he adds. Says the official, "this is our poster child for the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Brand of iTunes | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

...become a subsidiary of it. But Hayden has hardly been acting like a covert Rumsfeld agent. In his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in August 2004, he strongly supported the plan to create the DNI role, over Rumsfeld's objections, and he even proposed--to no avail--that the NSA be moved out of the Pentagon and into the DNI portfolio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinker, Briefer, Soldier, Spy | 5/15/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard College, highlighted the ways in which student behavior has nullified the intended effect of pass/fail. “Students are so concerned about their transcript that in many cases they’re reluctant to take courses pass/fail…and therefore don’t avail themselves of the option that we provide for them to take risks...

Author: By Andrew C. Miller | Title: GPA and Intellectual Risk | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

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