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...Time: U.S. officials are on the ground here (assessing the needs of a peacekeeping operation). I don't believe they visited you. I think they had to be forced to visit your defense minister. Are they signaling that, in their eyes, your government doesn't exist anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liberia's Taylor: 'I'll Go When the Peacekeepers Come' | 7/12/2003 | See Source »

...surest guard against tyranny and arbitrary power, Franklin came to believe, was free expression, the free flow of ideas and a free press. No tyrannical society can long exist, he felt, when it cannot control the flow of information and ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Ben's 7 Great Virtues | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...unified national Palestinian leadership, coopting their fighters into the PA security services and giving their political leaders a stake in the pursuit of Palestinian statehood along the lines envisaged in the roadmap. The idea of Abbas making common cause with an organization that currently rejects Israel's right to exist and which pioneered suicide bombing as a political tactic deepens Israeli anxiety over just where the roadmap is leading. But Abbas is dealing with the reality that Hamas may now be the most popular Palestinian organization in Gaza and a significant political presence in the West Bank. Hamas may have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Mideast Truce Breaks New Ground | 7/1/2003 | See Source »

...white works is White Discs 2 (1964) - an arrangement of black spots on a white ground. Look at it, though, and you begin to see flickering white spots - the afterimages of the black areas. Some of the early works, like the field of triangles Tremor (1962), seem to exist in three dimensions - to reside on a warped canvas. The jagged black lines of Blaze 1 (1962) and the ripples of Current (1964) create an illusion of color. Later, elements that ought to be 3-D (twisted threads, lattices) look flat; those that ought to be flat (stripes, waves) bulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eye Candy, Mind Games | 6/29/2003 | See Source »

...means that inner-city students get the same education as their suburban counterparts. Secretary of Education Rod Paige and Florida Governor Jeb Bush are among AP's advocates, feeling that it guarantees students will have a rigorous curriculum. But AP can't make up for the stark differences that exist between schools or the students who attend them. While kids in strong suburban schools have usually attained solid foundations before they enroll for advanced-placement work, youngsters in schools like Cardozo have often experienced 10 or 11 years of lackluster education by the time they get to the AP classroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Urban Kids Struggle With AP | 6/25/2003 | See Source »

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