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In the popular imagination, there seem to be only two ways of viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One—that which Mr. Rashid espouses in his article—portrays Israel as an oppressive force that brutally persecutes the Palestinian people. The other, the one I was raised with...

Author: By Samuel L. Linden | Title: LETTER | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

Is the college better off because of YAF's infusion of ideas and money? YAF has surely helped enliven the campus dialogue. But it has also helped embitter it. Custer is described even by political opponents, including Facente, as a considerate, smart kid who listens to all sides. "My goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: The Right's New Wing | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

One reason for the burial: postwar discussions of Japanese cultural restitution were rapidly superseded by political considerations. A key opponent of Japanese restitution was General Douglas MacArthur, head of the U.S. occupation government in Tokyo after the war. In a transcript of a confidential May 1948 radio message that TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legacy Lost | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

Second, Dali was disgraceful because he was so confessional--and so untrustworthy. Perhaps no artist in history has told his viewers more about his secret life; certainly none invented more about it. It still seems pretty weird, that inventory of impotence and aggression, of bizarre terrors and fetishes. But in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Two Faces Of Dali | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

But Gopher Prairie doesn't have many young to suffocate and embitter these days. Russo's characters in the fictional town of North Bath, not far from the Vermont border, are rueful losers who, late in middle age, have known one another since grade school. They weren't all that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boarded-Up Glocca Morra | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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