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...then, this nation has historically afforded certain privileges to its military personnel, and the old Navy flyer John McCain is confident he has earned a pass. "I enjoyed every single moment of my life here," he announced in a prepared speech Wednesday in Pensacola, Fla., "from learning to fly to blowing my pay at Trader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain: Loving His Misspent Youth | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...wanted to live the life of a daring, brash, fun-loving flyer, indifferent to the hazards of his profession, calm and stoic when the adrenaline flowed, fatalistic about life-and-death situations," McCain explained in Pensacola. "In truth, the image I aspired to was, in the end, only irresistible to one person - me, and it was a very childish attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain: Loving His Misspent Youth | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...that satirically supports President Bush in order to express its view of corporate interests—and derived from a similar tactic used by protesters last May in support of raising wages for security guards. Word of the protest was spread through campus e-mail lists, with a farcical flyer that asserted, “This war is needed to stimulate our economy and protect our homeland!” “This is about supporting good patriotic values and our God-given right to protect the land where our oil is residing,” said protester...

Author: By Teresa M. Cotsirilos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Stage Fake Pro-War Gathering | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

...Anderson, the fiscally responsible, culturally liberal Republican who ran as an Independent in 1980. Anderson won 7% of the vote, mostly among the young, educated and secular. But today those people are partisan Democrats. After Ralph Nader, there's simply no way that liberals are going to take a flyer on a candidate like Bloomberg, who is almost ideologically identical to their nominee but lacks a D next to his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bloomberg Delusion | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...softer, sweeter and nuttier than any I can get here; Greek olives; Brie from France; smoked salmon from Scotland. I thought about getting a rack of lamb from New Zealand, but I couldn't resist asking the guy behind the seafood counter for the fish with the most frequent-flyer miles. I was going to get the opah from Fiji, but then I spotted the Chilean sea bass from South Georgia island, southeast of Argentina?more than 7,000 miles of travel just to get eaten for a magazine article. Already feeling like some sort of insane European king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Extreme Eating | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

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