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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thing to conquer a country. It is quite another to stay there and try to force-feed your ideas onto a part of the world that has its own traditions. It is when empires strive to impose their ideals onto the conquered at bayonet point that even the most powerful occupying armies find themselves provoking violent resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When East Fought West | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...thing to conquer a country. It is quite another to stay there and try to force-feed your ideas to a part of the world that has its own traditions. It is when empires strive to impose their ideals onto the conquered at bayonet point that even the most powerful occupying armies find themselves provoking violent resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When East Fought West | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...working with HIV/AIDS educators and teaching tour groups about Zimbabwean culture. I am sorry that the great people of Zimbabwe have had to endure their government's horrific behavior. After President Robert Mugabe goes and the turmoil settles, Zimbabweans will come back even better, especially if they conquer HIV/AIDS. Richard L. Kimball, Franklin, North Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...working with hiv/aids educators and teaching tour groups about Zimbabwean culture. I am sorry that the great people of Zimbabwe have had to endure their government's horrific behavior. After President Robert Mugabe goes and the turmoil settles, Zimbabweans will come back even better, especially if they conquer hiv/aids. Richard L. Kimball, FRANKLIN, NORTH CAROLINA, U.S. One thought after reading Alex Perry's story about being jailed in Zimbabwe: by quoting his main interrogator and mentioning that several wardens asked for help in finding employment in London, has Perry not sentenced them to a similar or perhaps worse fate than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Misery of Zimbabwe | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

Like so many in my situation, I didn't mean to intermarry. It wasn't that I had ideas above my station; it was just that I was young and naive enough to think love would conquer all. Also, to be perfectly frank, I didn't think he was that hot. That's what makes this type of discrimination particularly insidious: it's not clear that couples have transgressed against hotness-equality laws until they're already married. Nobody minds if you date outside your tribe, and people applaud an ambitious play for the hubba-hubba human across the room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Your Spouse is Hotter than You | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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