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That isn't the right way to look at it. What the President should do is what's right for America and the world. Africa is the only continent in the world that's gone backwards in the last 30 years. I find it morally disgusting that thousands of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tony Blair | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

We prefer to avoid these situations by dealing with reality abstractly when we can, and putting our humanity on hold when avoiding reality is impossible. And so it is that a businessman who walked by that morning and did not notice the woman sprawled by his foot could, an hour...

Author: By Brian J. Rosenberg, ADAM M. GUREN | Title: Subway Lemmings | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

But as the civil rights movement shone a spotlight on inequality and discrimination, Lincoln's image came in for a beating. The myth of Lincoln as the black man's best friend was hard to square with his own words, from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, that he had "no purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The True Lincoln | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

Head on from the wave tops, it rises like a sleek steel Adonis, shoulders swelling massively from a taut waist. From high above, the jutting contours of its deck map the outlines of a miniature continent. The newest of America's 14 aircraft carriers, the 1,092-ft-long Carl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are America's Supercarriers the Weapon of the Future or a Throwback? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Nevertheless, the Europeans also share common reasons for opposing the American action. Among some leftists, including members of the West German Socialists and the British Labor Party, there is a fashionable attitude of blaming the U.S. for trying to stop terrorists rather than the terrorists for starting the bloodshed. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are the Europeans Angry? | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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