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...slave in chains, but also so irresistibly open-voweled, defiant and exhilarating. In some ways, "free" is the single word that sums up what's most appealing about Milton's politics - his resistance to tyranny, his commitment to liberty. But of course the whole sentence is a threat to beat up someone who disagrees with him - in particular, someone who refuses to acknowledge his God-guaranteed superiority over everyone else. And this religious fanatic will express his freedom by committing suicide in order to kill thousands of his enemies. Machiavelli, whom Milton admired, reasoned that a prince who was feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milton and Shakespeare: Battle of the Bards | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...lead-mining center that became the nation's most contaminated Superfund site. Its creek was the color of Tang, its population dwindled from 20,000 to 800, and the government was starting to buy out its holdouts in order to raze the ramshackle town. On May 10, Mother Nature beat it to the punch. Now everyone seems to agree that the town of Picher is dead and its residents will be compensated fairly. You can't blame them for the twister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eye of the Storm. | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...innocently surfing the Web. Clicking on stuff. Sports scores, news stories. You know, normal things. Then it starts. A fusillade of electronic drums. A doinky synthesizer beat. A dude with a pompadour and a lot of sincerity. He's dancing--badly. He is 1980s pop star Rick Astley, and you have been RICKROLLED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Never Gonna Say Goodbye | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...like we're mean to each other." Senior Oscar Hernandez, 18, says the May 9 melee started out as a simple schoolyard conflict. "It's not about racism - it's just individuals having problems with each other," he says. "But when you see your friend being beat up, you're going to reach out to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black vs. Brown at LA School | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

There was no sugar coating this one - the Republican Party got beat, and it got beat soundly. In any other year, Mississippi's 1st Congressional district would not have been a question. President Bush won the northeast corner of the state with two-thirds of the vote in 2004, the same margin that elected the last Republican congressman there in 2006. But Tuesday night, in a special election to replace the Representative who had moved on to take over Trent Lott's Senate seat, the results came in ugly. Travis Childers, a pro-life Democrat who supports gun rights, swept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans' Election Scare | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

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