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...ethnically Jewish nonbeliever, I find this fuss over conversion utterly baffling. Jewish leaders complain that conversion attempts imply that Judaism is an inferior religion. This seems unavoidably true. Any attempt to convert implies that the faith on offer is superior. "Theological arrogance" isn't a bad description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Want to Convert? Just Say No | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...screenplay (which also received a nomination, a final and irrefutable indication that the vast majority of Academy voters are on crack, most likely picked up on the set of "Traffic") asinine. Give this bloated monster a nod for costumes, or set design or lighting, and I won't complain. But when you open up the Best Picture field to dreck like this, you're just steps away from including Tom Green?s next movie. And that, by the way, is not a good thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Complainer | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...easier for a Republican president to make big moves on the military than for a Democrat, because the generals can't very well go running to Capitol Hill and complain that guys like Cheney and Rumsfeld don't know what they're doing. So the military is pretty nervous, because they realize that this may be the beginning of a major retooling of the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Ventures Where Democrats Fear to Tread: Overhauling the Military | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...competitive, driven nature of students here also makes them more likely to not tolerate and to complain about having to baby-sit drunk people or having their work interrupted," Riley adds...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood and F. REYNOLDS Mcpherson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Binge Less, But Hurt More By Others' Drinking | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

...uniform have another reason not to go along with the U.S. in its war on terrorism. In 1999, responding to the Indonesian military's brutality in East Timor, the U.S. Congress passed a law that banned U.S. training and education for Indonesian soldiers, which officials complain has hamstrung the military's ability to service its fleet of U.S.-made warplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Untangling The Web | 2/4/2001 | See Source »

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