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...would mean giving individuals the right to judge preemptively whether a person is a terrorist or not. But the power to be judge and executioner is of necessity the prerogative of the state alone. Obviously we "talk like victims" because we are the targets of terrorism. I don't find it "intolerable to travel" and certainly do not see an alternative to giving Grandma a pat down. What are you proposing? Profiling passengers on age? Then we are just one step away from doing the same for gender, race and religion. Victor Rohm, TORONTO
...discussion nearly impossible. Yet it is time for leaders on both sides of the Pacific to lift their heads above overwhelming domestic concerns and fix China's deteriorating relationship with foreign business and the developed world before things get out of control. One thing's certain: they won't find the answers through Google...
...Still Out Your naming Ben Bernanke as Person of the Year reminds me of the Nobel Peace Prize given to President Obama: both men are being congratulated in advance of any results [Dec. 28 - Jan 4]. Don't forget that Bernanke could be wrong, and then we might find the medication is worse than the illness. The final judgment will not come for a couple of years. Jean Claude Pivot Vourles, France
...nation went into mourning and President François Mitterrand lauded him as "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Carrying such celebrated DNA can be a daunting task. "With acting I never have to reference my father," Gainsbourg says. "With music I want to refer to him, but I want to find my own path, too." (See TIME's fond farewells...
...retrospect, the timing of my barefoot-running experiment - in New York City, in January, in the middle of one of the worst cold snaps in memory - may not have been ideal. But I was willing to risk toe frostbite to find out why a growing number of trainers and scientists believe that ditching cushioned soles might be the best way to protect joggers against chronic injuries...