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...structure of centralized power in Afghanistan - along with the only enemy a working majority of Afghanistan could agree on. And if the U.S. decides that it cannot let the ensuing vacuum swallow the nation it boasted of liberating, it may have to let the Pentagon drop the increasingly arti ficial-looking distinction between missions against the designated enemy and missions in support of the designated ally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Afghan Chaos Make U.S. Reluctant Nation-Builder? | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...whole, world leaders are far from enthusiastic about the choice being offered Americans. Like many U.S. voters, they blame it on the primary system. Says a top-ranking of ficial in Bonn's Chancellery: "What seems to matter is who has the most money and the most physical endurance. Political talent and sophistication play a very small part. If they played a larger role, the contest would be between top quality people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Praising with Faint Damns | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...oversupply has led to subtle price discounting, which enables some petroleum-producing states to unload part of their excess while keeping the.of-ficial price intact. OPEC'S price is pegged to the $10.46 that Saudi Arabia charges for its high-quality light oil; all other cartel crude is priced above or below that figure, depending on quality, shipping costs and other factors. Algeria's price has dropped from $14 per bbl. a year ago to $12 now, largely because premium charges for high quality and other factors have been removed. Libya has recently been forced to trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Surplus and Strain in OPEC | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Jerome Wiesner, MIT president said that he would raise the issue with the visiting scientists in his capacity as of ficial host. Steiner speaking for Bok who was out of town, said that "the president's views on this issue are known to be sympathetic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, MIT Physicists to Confront Soviets on Jewish Emigration Policy | 10/27/1972 | See Source »

...reach, has been brainwashed by the Polyanna media. Joey is sucked into high-powered consumerism. Both are removed from any contact with the upper classes. Truly saddening are the attempts Peter makes to talk with a Satan-enthralled ingenue in a record shop, and a coed of more super-ficial pretensions reading Hesse in a park. He is, in both cases, peremptorily cut off. It is probably a symptom of general urban paranoia that this action seems almost inevitable...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Shoestring Humanism | 1/15/1971 | See Source »

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