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...cheated that Vietnam was all we got? As it has turned out, the Iraq war isn't our World War II, nor is it another Vietnam. It is our World War I: a frivolous, costly, arrogant war that has set off an economic disaster, bred not just one maniac bent on genocide but a million and ended in a standstill that merely sets the stage for the next world war. Peggy Williams Mineral Ridge, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

Dedicated Lamont lovers hardly pay any attention to John, a daily fixture in the Ginsberg Reading Room. Unlike most of the other scholars, John is not bent over stacks of books or Facebook stalking on his laptop: instead, he prefers to peruse Lamont’s extensive newspaper-on-a-stick collection. Sporting his signature sideburns, students know the enigmatic John as an off-beat campus celebrity. The 64-year-old Boston native, who did not give his last name, treks over to Cambridge from nearby Fresh Pond nearly seven days a week. Upon arrival, John makes himself at home...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meet Mr. Burns | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...role of Christianity at Harvard. According to French, who is also a third-year student at the Harvard Divinity School, the group provides a different take on religion from other faith-based groups on campus. “Most of these are of a more conservative theological bent,” he said. “We were interested in forming a group regardless of theological persuasion.” Despite a variety of perspectives on religion, the group has created a “mode of mutual respect,” said French, in which students...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing Podcasts for the Pious | 2/26/2007 | See Source »

Perhaps the question ofwhom toarrest and whom to send back into battle should be cast in different terms. Which should we fear more--terrorists bent on destroying a nation and an idea or domestic addicts who owe their allegiance to a drug? We might do well to take the view of Winston Churchill, who said after Adolf Hitler invaded the U.S.S.R., "If Hitler invaded hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." The terrorists are our Hitler, and the drug dealers are our U.S.S.R. We must assign a higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 2007 | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...knew why the gusto had gone out of the nurse's voice. One of the patient's arms was horribly broken and bent at an ungodly angle. She had just started a large-bore IV in the other. And while her big fat needle pierced him three or four times before it found blood, this stolid 60-year-old Eastern European block of a man had made not a sound. His face hadn't registered a flicker of pain, his arm stayed still, even his hand remained limp. No reaction to this needle torture promised an unsatisfying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Real is Your Pain? | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

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