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Does there come a time when your spouse-seeking clients need to settle? Oh, yes. These girls are 36, 37, 38, 39 - they're not settling. They're foolish! Your instinct tells you you have to. I settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: eHarmony, Meet Fiddler on the Roof | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...envoy Lawrence Pezzullo met with Cedras, the Haitians knew the fleet was on its way. According to American and Haitian sources, Pezzullo wasn't about to bargain. ''You said you were someone who could deliver,'' Pezzullo told Cedras. ''You said your word was good. Now you look stupid and foolish. I'm not saying you've done all the bad things that have happened, but I lay it all on . you anyway because you've always said that you're responsible for order in Haiti.'' Taken aback, Cedras was silent. Then, says a person present that day, ''he tried some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POLITICAL INTEREST FEELING THE HEAT | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...Republicans more than Democrats), or his opposition (since rescinded) to the Bush tax cuts, or what they regard as his tiresome and preening routine as a maverick. They resent his mutual love affair with the press (which he jokingly refers to as "my base"). They remember a lot of foolish talk a while back about how McCain might switch parties and become a Democrat. And yet almost all of these McCain haters will vote for him in November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divided They Fall | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

Twain plainly thought war a foolish thing, and when, in Private History, he pulls his gun and kills a man riding through the woods, thinking him an enemy, we can feel for Twain and his young companions, standing there trembling in the darkness, wishing they could bring their victim back to life. After only two weeks' service, he resigned his commission. In his autobiography, Twain explains that he was "'incapacitated by fatigue' through persistent retreating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Past Black and White | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...healing powers of the broken roads - just one of the daily miracles that keep this country going, sometimes against considerable odds. That may be why, even a century and a half after Gogol first complained about Russia's roads, expecting them to be repaired - well, that would simply be foolish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only Fools Would Fix a Broken Road | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

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