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...anonymity--would even support injuring an opposing player or coach. In 1940 the Cornell football team forfeited a victory after realizing that it had been mistakenly given an extra play. If a coach did that today, sports writers would declare him a saint. And his team's fans would boil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil in Every Fan | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...anonymity - would even support injuring an opposing player or coach. In 1940 the Cornell football team forfeited a victory after realizing that it had been mistakenly given an extra play. If a coach did that today, sports writers would declare him a saint. And his team's fans would boil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil in Every Fan | 9/19/2007 | See Source »

...that Friedrich Nietzsche, and the universities that put him in their curriculums, bore the responsibility for the defendants' actions. If the philosophy of the superman could lead to murder, Bryan argued, then the state had good reason to control what was taught in schools. The curriculum debate continues to boil. In 2005 Bush said that both intelligent design (a stealth creationist theory) and evolution ought to be taught in schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Matters of Morality | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

Edwards' populism was heating up - and threatening to boil over. Though he had sometimes seemed distracted on this tour, as if holding something back during so many sessions with so many needy people, his passion had been building since the night before in Pittsburgh, as he weaved stories from the past two days into his remarks and brought into sharp focus the themes of his poverty tour: That it is wrong for millions of Americans to have no medical care. That it is wrong for millions of Americans to work full time yet live in poverty. And on Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Edwards Fires Up His Populism | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...tensions boil over, the ironic dialogue gets hotter. Ana Luisa exclaims, in agony, "Oh, if only my mother were alive!" and, in anger, "I'd kill myself if my mother were black." (Hearing that, José Carlos slaps her.) Mercé, ground down by the ill feelings, is getting weaker. And when Ana Luisa calls her a "damn black woman" and strikes her," José Carlos shouts the words the movie has been steaming toward: "Don't! She is your mother!" Revelation; guilt; death; renewal. Sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning Pedro Infante | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

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