Word: essays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...happens to superstars who reach the top and have no place to go but down. Look at Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson. We treat celebrities like gods, then complain when they start to believe they can fly. Jonathan Lowe Tucson, Arizona, U.S. A Fan's Devotion Michael Elliott's essay "Hopelessly Devoted" [June 6], on being an obsessive fan of the Liverpool Football Club, reminded me of how it felt to be blindly devoted to a boy band. I had the group's posters hung all over the walls of my room when I was little and played their tapes...
...Essay...
TIME.com For a photo essay on gangs and a Q&A with Robert Yager, go to time.com/gangs
...students next door sometimes give voice to the commonplace resentment that can be found among Muslims the world over. Assigned by his English teacher to write an essay about his own American Dream, a 15-year-old wrote that the occupied territories should be returned to the Palestinians and "the Jews should be left to suffer." More often, however, Universal's students feel resentment about being stereotyped, both in the media and on the streets. To senior Ali Fadhli, the Fox TV show 24, which had a plot this season about a Muslim terrorist cell, is "obnoxious," he says. "America...
...Should Hillary Run? Joe Klein's essay "What About Hillary?" spelled out why it's a bad idea for U.S. Senator Clinton to run for President [May 16]. I agree with much of Klein's assessment of Hillary's possible candidacy. What the Senator will find out, should she run, is that all the old questions regarding Whitewater, her plans for revamping health care and her conduct toward her White House staff will come back to hit her with the fury of a tsunami. It will be a massive political and media sideshow. John Simpson Nashua, New Hampshire...