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While brute reality has forced the U.S. to use diplomacy abroad, the President's swaggering arrogance is still alive and well at home. Bush ignores established law and subverts congressional legislation with signing statements. I half expected to hear him repeat his famous words "Bring 'em on" in response to the recent attempts, however feeble, by Congress and the courts to rein in his power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 7, 2006 | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

...lobbyist by slaughter proponents. "Somebody is putting money into this for a lobbyist to be on it," says Pickens. He warned Barton that people were getting worked up over the issue. "I told him when you get women like my wife and Paula Bacon involved, you give ?em an ax and they'll do some chopping." So Barton called a hearing Tuesday before a House of Representatives Energy & Commerce subcommittee. (A commerce subcommittee since proponents contend that banning horse slaughtering for food sales violates commerce laws.) The House Majority leader, John Boehner, has said the House will vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: T. Boone Pickens To the Rescue | 7/25/2006 | See Source »

...hurt my mouth this time.") Sex is violent, and violence sexy. They are the two things that give him a thrill. And once in a while he can combine the two. "I don't hit women," he genially assures pearly Shirley Eaton In The Girl Hunters. "I always kick 'em...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Pulp | 7/22/2006 | See Source »

...newer boards are often called "composites," because unlike old PU boards, they are crafted from foams of varying densities as well as fiberglass, resins, carbon fibers and wood in various configurations, some devised with sophisticated computer modeling. "Once surfers try 'em, it's an easy sell," says Jason Weatherley of Salomon. The trick is getting those old-school riders on board. [This article contains a diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing's New Wave | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...actually gained 3% the very next day. This was history repeating itself; after a bombing in 1993, when the exchange building itself was attacked, traders stood amid the ruins and used the old manual system, sending the Sensex shooting up 10% in two days. Just to show 'em...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back On Track | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

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