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America is a stoutly murderous nation--the FBI reports we had 16,204 homicides in 2002. That's not exactly something to be proud of, but you'd think it would at least give us an edge in one of our prized national exports, the mystery novel. Agatha Christie aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Most Exotic | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

It was our job to prepare the ground to enable the infantry to get ashore, to stay ashore and fight and win. We also hoped that they'd kill a whole bunch of those damned antiaircraft gunners for whom we had no love and no pity. A couple of hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

More than a week of negotiations, however, have produced very little. The insurgents have mocked the agreement with local religious and tribal leaders under which they were expected to turn in their heavy weaponry, and have continued to attack U.S. positions. U.S. field commanders have little confidence that their negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Big Iraq 'To-Do' List | 4/27/2004 | See Source »

When it comes down to it, polls put people together that really don’t have any connection to each other. Sure, 51 percent of those polled may have said that they think the country’s doing just fine. But it’s all an illusion...

Author: By Christopher W. Snyder, WRIT SMALL | Title: The Tyranny of the Poll | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

The shimmering heat of June is burdened, not alone with the scent of roses, but also with the phantoms of floating platitudes, as benedictions fall from the platform of each school and college in the country upon a graduating class. Thousands of schoolboys learn afresh the significance of educo. Numberless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORDS FROM THE WISE | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

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