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...Damien Hirst and his $100 million Sotheby's auction [Sept. 15]. He is a great artist. TIME has, over the years, built itself a reputation of good story-writing and my family has been reading it for the past 20 years. I, a 13-year-old, have seen a flaw that has been bothering me for quite a while: the use of vulgar language (or evidence thereof). When I read TIME, I do not expect to read nonsense, and if I wish to read something with swear words, I would have done so. Can't you take the liberty...
...treatment of male beauty. "You have it, and then you lose it," he says, recalling his own youth as a dancer in London. "I identify with that from my early clubbing days. The power that you felt walking in - like you ruled the world!" The obvious flaw of the book, as Bourne saw it, was its lack of sympathetic characters. But somehow he kept returning to it. "Perhaps this cautionary tale - this Rake's Progress - could tell us something about the world we live...
...killing its seven passengers? ''Failure of the pressure seal in the aft-field joint of the right solid-rocket motor.'' Why was the shuttle allowed to fly if unsafe? ''Neither Thiokol nor NASA responded adequately to internal warnings about the faulty seal design . . . There was a serious flaw in the decision-making process.'' The commission appointed to investigate the Challenger accident interviewed more than 160 people, held hearings that generated 2,800 pages of transcripts, then summarized it all in an orderly 256-page report that met the deadline set by Ronald Reagan. Led skillfully by former Secretary of State...
...pack victory was at Turnberry in 1986). He will remain one of the sport's great tragic figures, his career marked by bad luck (consider the 1987 Masters, when Larry Mize miraculously holed a 140-foot chip shot in a sudden-death playoff) but also an inner flaw linked to overreaching (see the final round of the 1996 Masters, when a six-stroke lead turned into a five-stroke loss...
...hack revealed a significant security flaw in the more than 15-year-old swipe card system, as he was able to gain access to buildings and gates across campus with only knowledge of HUID numbers and a $200 card reader bought from eBay...