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...Muslim and a student of Islam, I was utterly distressed by the bombings in London. Although I know that many educated non-Muslims understand that terrorists are a fringe element in the Muslim world, I still feel ashamed that such atrocities could emerge from among my people. While the whole world opposes the terrible evil of terrorism, the greater fight for the Muslim community is to wipe out that ugly blemish. At this moment, while feeling grief for all affected, I want to cry out to the world: "I am a Muslim. And like most of my fellow Muslims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 8/6/2005 | See Source »

...carry out such acts. Negotiating with terrorists is like squeezing water from a stone. Chimasia Ondiaka Winnipeg, Canada As a Muslim and a student of Islam, I was utterly distressed by the bombings in London . Although I know that many educated non-Muslims understand that terrorists are a fringe element in the Muslim world, I still feel ashamed that such atrocities could emerge from among my people. While the whole world opposes the terrible evil of terrorism, the greater fight for the Muslim community is to wipe out that ugly blemish. At this moment, while feeling grief for all affected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror | 8/2/2005 | See Source »

...Department sponsored a design competition for a new kind of weapons system--the strategic bomber. While Germany, Japan and Italy bombed civilians in World War II, only the U.S. and Britain configured their forces and defined their war-fighting doctrines around the central element of a massive strategic air arm designed to carry the battle to the enemy's civilian society. In Europe the U.S. B-17 and B-24 bomber fleets made a considerable effort to restrict their attacks to high-value economic and military targets. But in the endgame of the war against Japan, long-range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossing the Moral Threshold | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...smart enough, you have a high sperm count. Part of the lesson I got from—when I was able to qualify and was actually considering it, even though I had completely dismissed it before the examination—is that there is a strong element of raw male ego within the process...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping for Sperm: Nobel Prizes Wanted | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

...TIME: By creating this family of actors, for whom he writes, and whom he knows so well, he reduces the surprise element...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: To Liv With Bergman | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

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