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...What kept Russia away from us was our strength. We just have to become a strong country that no one wants to fool with. I'm afraid we don't have the strength we had during the Reagan days. Back then no one wanted to mess with us. We diminished that strength through the Clinton days. We've got to get that strength back, where everyone says, "Don't mess with America, man." It's like [being] a martial artist. You walk down the street and it's like, "Don't mess with him, man. He'll kick your head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chuck Norris: Action Star, Tax Reformer | 9/8/2008 | See Source »

...rock," says Dr. W. Russell Byrne, who ran Ivins' division for 18 months, from 1998 to 2000. Ivins worked on finding vaccines for anthrax, which was a dangerous, dirty job. "He was a good scientist, working in an area that not a whole lot of people wanted to fool with back then. Nobody ever doubted his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Anthrax Files | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

When it's all over, I will leave Minnesota with a few new friends—all of us suffering from exhaustion—and a great new wardrobe of jackets and seersucker suits. And while I will return to The Crimson as a designer, I may fool myself into believing that I can actually write...

Author: By Alee Lockman | Title: Unconventional | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...Just as in school, certain styles and viewpoints are considered "cool" in the alternative scene; those that don't fit in are derided. This year the critically acclaimed band Smashing Pumpkins had a hit single called Cherub Rock, an attack on alternative dogmatism: "Stay cool/ And be somebody's fool this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK'S ANXIOUS REBELS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...deploy a wider, deeper repertory. The technique remained impeccable, but Horowitz made an effort to transcend his limitations and become a musician as well as a pianist. He succeeded as well as he could. He was not as cosmopolitan as his great rival Arthur Rubinstein, nor would he ever fool anybody into thinking he was Artur Schnabel, the apostle of German-style ''depth.'' The Columbia disks, all solo, are rife with puckish renditions of Scarlatti sonatas and Schubert impromptus that sometimes verge on eccentricity, and of Beethoven sonatas and Schumann fantasies that often threaten to collapse beneath their own structural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREATEST PIANIST OF ALL? | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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