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...forces for missions short of war. ("We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten," said Condoleezza Rice, now National Security Adviser, to the New York Times in 2000.) As for Liberia, all the key phrases last week - the need for clearly defined missions and exit strategies, the desperate attempt to swear that, honest, only a couple of hundred American soldiers would ever go to West Africa - were so reminiscent of the mid-1990s that at any minute I expected someone to do the Macarena. A U.S. intervention in Liberia, let us be clear, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Following Familiar Footsteps | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...devotion to NASCAR or deep-sea fishing. Harleys or Corvettes lead processions in place of hearses. Wakes are staged as garden parties and feature professionally made biopics of the deceased. Cremated remains are fashioned into jewelry, fused into artwork, and stuffed into fireworks for those who want an exit with a real bang. "There's not a cookie-cutter funeral anymore," says Michael Gill, funeral director at the Brady-Gill funeral home in Tinley Park, Ill. "People want to do their own thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What A Way To Go | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...everyone has been sensing the awkwardness of the morning ride up, it is confirmed by the frenzied exit. Road rage meets Twister: mangled, yet relieved, everyone manages to break through...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, | Title: Going Up? | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

...aren’t in a hurry. In fact, they might make an extra stop on another floor to greet a friend. They wait for others to exit first, say goodbye to the security guard and tip the garage attendant before getting into their cars for the ride home...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, | Title: Going Up? | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

...it’s a good thing, too, since the jokes come fast and furious. “Oh, you’re from New Jersey? What exit?” “You live in New Jersey? Ooh, ooh, pronounce the word ‘dog’!” “Are your parents in the Mafia?” “The Garden State? Shouldn’t it be the Garbage State...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: Let the 'Joizy' Jokes Begin | 7/3/2003 | See Source »

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