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...This administration's "cowboy diplomacy" might have been more successful if not for terribly flawed decisions and planning (or lack thereof), corruption, the sanction of immoral practices and a recklessness with the lives of our military personnel. Robert Berg La Luz, New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/4/2006 | See Source »

...Once upon a time, in the late '60s and early '70s, there was something that deserved the term adult entertainment. It delved responsibly into mature themes for a wide, grown-up audience. Midnight Cowboy, which won the Oscar as best picture of 1969, was rated X; if you weren't at least 18, you couldn't see it. Same with such excellent films as Medium Cool and The Devils. I don't remember mass complaints that kids couldn't see these films. The idea then was that some things - intelligent films and, for that matter, the profits that came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

...North Korea, the U.S. has failed to persuade Russia and China, who wield veto power in the U.N. Security Council, to agree to specific sanctions against either Tehran or Pyongyang." So far, it would seem, multilateral diplomacy is batting zero. Carol Jarrard Augusta, Georgia, U.S. This administration's "cowboy diplomacy" might have been more successful if not for terribly flawed decisions and planning (or lack thereof), corruption, the sanction of immoral practices and a recklessness with the lives of our military personnel. Robert Berg La Luz, New Mexico, U.S. While brute reality has forced the U.S. to use diplomacy abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way Out of the Middle East Mess | 8/22/2006 | See Source »

...glimpse what that picture might feel like as, to the throb of We Will Rock You, another cowboy comes in from the ring. He's not whooping or punching the air. He's not even smiling. But his eyes are bright and he walks with a special swagger that says, "I have contended with every natural force: the centrifugal, the centripetal, the gravitational, the brute and the psychological. And for eight seconds, I have triumphed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Buck Stops | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...onstage had a little bit to do with it because you're speaking to other people about our business. I'm surprised I didn't get in trouble a year before that when I was at a press conference overseas and they were asking me about our wild Texas cowboy President. I said, "He's not from Texas, and he ain't a cowboy, so let's stop trashin' Texans and cowboys." It got a little chuckle, but I didn't get run out of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Willie Nelson | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

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