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...free press in a democracy, is to continue to raise tough questions. That doesn't mean needless aggression; it means holding people in power accountable. If I had to single out one personal consequence, I would single out Rush Limbaugh. When the hurricane ravaged the Gulf Coast-a hurricane sadly bearing my name, Katrina-he went on his radio show, and began calling it Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel. That comes because I think he sees me on Hardball, or he understands that I take positions and feel strongly and passionately about those. It seemed to me he was willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl Catches Up With Katrina vanden Heuvel | 12/9/2005 | See Source »

...grandfadder was de Reverend Barton Dowden, a Presbyterian parson. And he had a great-grandfadder who was a manager of Plantation Vyfuisheid on de West Coast-a pure white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guiana Belle | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Down to Business. By last week Mrs. Buckley had earned a reputation as one of the top schoolteachers on the coast-a doughty and determined counter-revolutionary with a passion for sound minds, manners and morals. Today, the three Buckley schools have 300 pupils-the sons & daughters of bankers, musicians, scriptwriters, lawyers, and Hollywood stars (among them: Alice Faye, Anita Louise, Judy Garland). And last week 115 Buckley students showed up to begin a ten-week summer program of sports, hand crafts and nature study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: CounteR-R-Revolution | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...major portion of Author Steen's book concerns Hero Johnny Flood's tussles with witch doctors and rebellious Negroes on the Gold Coast-a he-man's world which supplies the crunchier passages of Twilight's prevailing nougat. It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pish Pie | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...little country (54,300 sq. mi., about the size of Wisconsin) is divided in three belts, paralleling the coast-a low, marshy, unnavigable shore line, where only the shallowest boats can go; a strip of savanna, sparsely wooded and creek-ribbed; a little-known, hill-&-mountain interior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Old Master | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

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