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...intentionally misleading: "Well, I wasn't directly involved in that decision. He was moved out of the counterterrorism business over to the cybersecurity side of things ..." (For the record: Clarke not only ran counterterrorism through 9/11 but remained on the job for another year as he watched in disgust the Administration divert its attention from al-Qaeda to Saddam Hussein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sending Out the Smite Squad | 3/28/2004 | See Source »

...symbiosis between a racist society and the groups it despises. Take the camp's Chinese cook Wu (Keone Young), who is the butt of slant-eye jokes but has an indispensable role. When someone wants to keep a murder quiet, the corpse is fed--despite the cook's silent disgust--to Wu's pigs. (Which, yes, the townsfolk eat.) Even more essential are the Indians or, as they are dehumanizingly and incessantly called, "the godless heathen c__ksucker Sioux." Although it's two weeks after Custer's massacre at Little Bighorn, they don't appear, except as a constantly invoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: True Grit | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...shakers. You know, all those various distinct personalities that make up a typical Harvard discussion section, in all its awkward-silence-filled, unread and uninformed glory. Such a line of conversation amongst friends usually plays out in a fairly predictable way. Everyone in the group groans loudly in disgust at predictable tropes like The Freshman, who has highlighted the entire sourcebook (with annotations!); The Jaded Thesis-Writing Senior, usually hailing from Social Studies or Hist and Lit, who stumbles in at 17 minutes past the hour (if at all) draped in flannel pajamas with artfully styled bed-head hair...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester, | Title: Pleased To Meet You | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

...camps as part of the youths' training. "You are molding someone to listen to you, so if it means rapes have to take place in order for that person to take instruction from you, then it's O.K.," he says. Another ministry insider, who left his job in disgust, said he wrote numerous memos to his superiors about the rapes, but was ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe's Campers | 3/14/2004 | See Source »

...summoned to a hotel room where numerous players would take turns having sex with her while the others watched. But on this occasion the coach blundered. Having chosen to go first, he was surprised to see some of the younger players looking on with what appeared to be disgust. "The last thing I wanted to see was his bum going up and down," one of them recalls. "He didn't get it that times had changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Walk on the Blindside | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

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