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...Bomb?the strangulation question is front and center. Should North Korea's trade and economic ties, most importantly those with China and South Korea, the North's largest trading partners and charitable benefactors, be choked off to pressure a country that is already among the most economically backward in the world...
...wholeheartedly agree with TIME's choice of Bush. Dubya's footprints have been large; it is a pity they have mostly been going backward. The President is no revolutionary but a reactionary pushing against the progressive tide. Americans feel poorer, less safe and less free than four years ago. Despite a narrow election victory in threatening times, he tells himself he has a mandate to shake things up. Look out, America. Look out, world! Jeff Bennetzen Bogart, Georgia...
...quoted him as saying, "I've got all the power I need." Yes, God help us all, he does. Jan Hamilton Powell Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. I wholeheartedly agree with TIME's choice of Bush. Dubya's footprints have been large; it is a pity they have mostly been going backward. The President is no revolutionary but a reactionary pushing against the progressive tide. Americans feel poorer, less safe and less free than four years ago. Despite a narrow election victory in threatening times, Bush tells himself he has a mandate to shake things up. Look out, America. Look out, world...
...money last year by appointing the creaky-jointed Roche to a part-time deal that will kick in before each of the grand slam events. Then again, perhaps he's not. "In this game you look for ways to improve," says former Australian pro John Alexander, "or you go backward." Technically, Federer is near to perfect. Roche certainly won't have to take apart and rebuild any of the Swiss's strokes, as he did with Pat Rafter's forehand in the 1990s. But maybe Federer could play a smarter game. The thrust of Alexander's argument is that because...
...that all there is to it? Take a giant step backward, look at the history and the context that led up to the rise of the twixters, and you start to wonder, Is it that they don't want to grow up, or is it that the rest of society won't let them...