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...increase in the parade of beautiful young women who enter my office hating their bodies and starving themselves to achieve an unattainable ideal. Any movement to stop this travesty should be lauded and supported. If Madrid outlaws the use of dangerously thin models in fashion work, perhaps that could begin to force those responsible to adapt. Minna Baker Narberth, Pennsylvania, U.S. Folding Newspapers Michael Kinsley's piece on the apparently dismal future of the newspaper industry made some valid arguments about the value of traditional journalism [Oct. 2]. Kinsley's attempt, however, to place most of the blame for newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving Loss, Regaining Life | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...we’re going, the president is going to be a fundraiser and a speechmaker and not an educator. I think we will begin to lose our way and lose a sense of direction that presidents of the past have been able to give to the institution...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bok Looks Back, and Offers Words of Advice | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...begin with, it's bad politics. There are a whole lot of religious people in America, including the majority of Democrats. When we abandon the field of religious discourse - when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced, rather than in the positive sense of what it tells us about our obligations toward one another; when we shy away from religious venues and religious broadcasts because we assume that we will be unwelcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama: My Spiritual Journey | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...House in 1992 even though her district has trended more Democrat.(She beat George Bush's vote in the district by 10 percentage points in 2004.) But this year, Pryce finds herself in the political fight of her life. So great is the threat that she was forced to begin airing television ads last June, which is unusually early for a seven-term incumbent; so out of practice was her organization that the ad spelled her first name as "Deboarah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: No Politics Is Local in Ohio | 10/16/2006 | See Source »

...better try--and soon. Although the last thing Americans want is a defeat in Iraq, events may be sliding in that direction and we need to shrink the fallout. The nightmare scenario could begin now, or in the next two years as troops are withdrawn, or thereafter, abruptly or slowly. To speak of defeat is not to advocate it but to prepare to minimize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Would Defeat in Iraq Be So Bad? | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

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