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...Osamu Tezuka's "Phoenix: Karma" reaches near nirvanic heights. As entertaining as any comic can be, it miraculously also achieves what lesser religious comix strive for and fail at: enlightenment. Though it seems doubtful that readers will change their lives thanks to "Karma," they cannot avoid being touched by its deeply humane philosophy and egoless artistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Born Again | 7/17/2004 | See Source »

...both the tip sheet and the termbill fail to tell students how to opt-out of the council?...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bill Leaves Students Wondering How To Avoid Council Fee | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...girls’ school in Manhattan, which inevitably means that I’m tapped into “Interschool” (a.k.a. “The New York City Private School Crazy Incestuous Social Network”). My classmates and I laughingly coined the 86th Street Rule: Without fail, you will meet someone you know on the main thoroughfare in our neighborhood...

Author: By Hana R. Alberts, | Title: Six Degrees of Separation | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...your kids access the Web from a regular Web browser, however, you have to do a little more work. While there is a built-in Content Advisor in Internet Explorer and a SafeSearch feature in Google, I found both ineffective: they either fail to block pornographic websites altogether or block so many sites that your browser becomes unusable. (For example, I was unable to log on to the Nickelodeon kids' site nick.com using Internet Explorer's Content Advisor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: The Web-Porn Patrol | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

...real criminal is Bush." Both of the accused men are doggedly determined to expose the political underpinnings of their trials and thus turn the table on their captors. But one of these two courts is designed to be immune to such claims. Milosevic's efforts are destined to fail, for the Yugoslav tribunal, created by U.N. mandate, is both internationally legitimate and objectively fair. It's difficult to imagine the authorities in Belgrade conducting a similarly unbiased prosecution, or one that so carefully protects Milosevic's right to defend himself and even cross-examine victims of his alleged crimes. Milosevic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dictators in the Dock | 7/11/2004 | See Source »

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