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...boys there are completely dull, you know, they definitely don’t go to college. But I am definitely the exception there,” she said. “It’s hard to relate to people there...

Author: By Alex L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard to Go Virtual, So They Say | 9/17/2003 | See Source »

...mastermind Hambali by Thai police [WORLD, Aug. 25] demonstrates that police work in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand can result in the capture of terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's preferred policy of war is largely show business. Police investigations are dull, while war is flashy. And politicians are eager to show they're doing something, not just sitting around. PAUL KUNINO LYNCH Katoomba, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 2003 | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...acknowledged American deaths, with the capture of only a few terrorists. But during the same time, police in Pakistan, Yemen and now Thailand have captured terrorist bigwigs. It's hard to avoid the thought that the Bush Administration's policy of war is largely show business. Police investigations are dull, while war is flashy. And politicians are eager to show they're doing something, not just sitting around. Paul Kunino Lynch Katoomba, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...begun to use cannabis earlier, I would have avoided making some choices I now regret. The worst career choice I ever made was to enter psychoanalytic training. Although I became skeptical about some aspects of psychoanalytic theory during that time, my qualms were not sufficient to dull the enthusiasm with which I began treating patients psychoanalytically in 1967. It was not until the mid-’70s, shortly after I began to smoke marijuana, that my emerging doubts about the therapeutic effectiveness of psychoanalysis began to make me uncomfortable. The evenings when I smoke marijuana provide, among other things...

Author: By Lester S. Grinspoon, | Title: A Cannabis Odyssey | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

...well-cologned manager Bill Cayton against the understated promoter Don King. Last August, once Tyson had all the belts, King threw a coronation for history's youngest heavyweight champion. The melancholy scene recalled King Kong crusted with what the promoter called "baubles, rubies and fabulous other doodads." Beholding the dull eyes and meek surprise under [Tyson's] lopsided crown and chinchilla cloak, King said he was reminded "of Homer's Odysseus returning to Ithaca to gather his dissembled fiefdoms." Sighs Tyson: "It's tough being the youngest anything." --TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 15 Years Ago In TIME | 8/18/2003 | See Source »

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