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...finest drafting skills of any living cartoonist her "tortured scratching" (her words) makes a mockery of proportion, weight and space. People hate her for it just as people hate Robert Crumb for his outlandish depictions of women and blacks. But just as Crumb's art comes from daring to confront his own prejudices, it takes guts to put your cartoon's next Crumb's, and Kominsky Crumb's artwork has a brutish appeal in her flat, crude style. It suits her content in its bluntness and in its literal "colorfulness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All You Need Is... | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...failing of many of our well-intentioned leaders to think that they have the power to change such a natural order, as the British and French believed when they ventured to remap the Middle East after World War I, leaving behind a host of problems that confront us today. Harry Friedman Milton Keynes, England

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding Your Way Around Your Brain | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...always hide,” he said. “I can always go to a party and have an angry author confront me and say, ‘It was a group decision.’ Sometimes I’ll lie. I’m a coward...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Times Editor Shares Secrets | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard, but cordoning women off into a room is not going to solve the problem. For there to truly be “safe space” at Harvard and beyond, women have to be willing to engage the enemy. FemSex does not offer one seminar on how to confront gender stereotypes in the real world: it is only interested in separating women into these silly slumber party seminars...

Author: By Vanessa J. Dube | Title: Both Hands and a Flashlight | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

Indeed, on the same day Steinmeier was speaking in Munich, Barack Obama was launching his presidential campaign in Springfield, Ill. His speech had two paragraphs on foreign policy. In the first, Obama acknowledged the importance of a strong military in the key task of this generation--to "confront" and "track down" terrorists. In the second, he urged that "we bring an end to this war in Iraq" by sending our combat troops home. "It's time," he said, "to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Force a Chance | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

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