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...think about what military service meant to African Americans.” Thus, a policy that bars the right of homosexuals openly to serve in the military is a “badge of degradation and second-class citizenship.” With such stakes, President Faust cannot fathom keeping her silence...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Honoring Their Service | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...refused to give up her seat on the bus and 39 when he was murdered. Prodigies in music and math are familiar, but moral genius we typically associate with age. The gap between the brevity of King's life and its consequence is easy to state but hard to fathom, like the speed of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghosts Of Memphis | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...year-old widowed grandmother, I am thrilled that young voters care again. However, I can't fathom why young women aren't incensed that in the 232-year history of this country we have never had a woman President. To the young lady who said she wouldn't vote for Clinton because she might lose, I ask, How will you feel 60 years from now when women say they won't vote for your granddaughter because she might lose? If past generations of women had been so lily-livered, the young lady you quoted wouldn't have had the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Bills, the commander for U.S. forces in Mosul, has ruled out using so-called Concerned Local Citizens (CLC), bands of irregulars working alongside American and Iraqi troops in parts of Baghdad, Anbar Province and other areas of Iraq. "You got such a melting pot it's difficult to even fathom trying to do a CLC up here," Bills said of the Mosul area, where the population is complex mix of Iraq's ethnic and sectarian groups. The territory around Mosul has long been home to Kurds, Sunnis, Christians, Shi'ites, Yazidis and Turkmens. Bills fears any efforts to organize volunteer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the 'Decisive Battle' for Mosul? | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...year-old widowed grandmother, I am thrilled that young voters care again. I can't fathom, however, why young women aren't incensed that in the 232-year history of this country, we have never had a woman President. To the young lady who said she wouldn't vote for Clinton because she might lose, I ask, How will you feel 60 years from now when women say they won't vote for your granddaughter because she might lose? If past generations of women had been so lily-livered, the young lady you quoted wouldn't have had the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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