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...Grilling a General Joe Klein eloquently expressed his disgust over the General David Petraeus dog-and-pony show before Congress [Sept. 24]. But Klein failed to mention the real reason the Senators didn't press Petraeus for legitimate answers: the military-industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned us about is a sinister weave of self-interest involving the nation's corporate, military and political powerhouses. Ken Hicks Lincoln University...
...cruel and unusual punishment. The toxic serum is meant to be pain-free, but there is some doubt about the drug's numbing anesthetic. While the court hears the case, 12 of the 37 states that use lethal injection have halted executions so far. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...
...officeholders and candidates. Canary denied that to TIME. The fact that those charges were never looked at will only heighten suspicions that the Siegelman prosecution was a case of selective justice and that in the Bush Administration, enforcing the law has been a partisan pursuit. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy...
...mathematicians. Yet the finished product is often remarkably simple. You could say that some combination of straightforward means and subtle effects is the signature of Eliasson's best work. Beauty, after all, is nothing more than a perforated hose and a spotlight. And with those Eliasson made something haunting, complex and even poignant-an object of desire that dematerializes when you try to get close to it. It may be "yours." But it could only...
...familiar face to contemporary audiences from his roles on TV (Law & Order) and in film (Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks), but the critically acclaimed actor George Grizzard made his name onstage with complex, emotionally demanding roles in plays by Neil Simon, Clifford Odets and, most famously, Edward Albee. As the assaulted Nick in the original 1962 production of Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Grizzard, wrote a critic, "shifted from geniality to intensity with shattering rightness." Fittingly, when he took home the Best Actor Tony in 1996, it was for his insightful portrayal of patriarch Tobias...