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...definition, a temporary medium, the destroyer of the penis might have restrained herself and let nature take her course, which inevitably takes care of the “problem.” With the world in its current state, the only possible reaction to this amount of fuss over a snow sculpture is to laugh...

Author: By Sallie B. Adams, | Title: A Cold Day at Harvard: From Puerile to Penile | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...Senate Democrats kicking up such a fuss over a Hispanic lawyer who wants to be a judge? Their filibuster against Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born Washington attorney, to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is risky for the party, since the G.O.P. has resorted to phone banks and radio ads to portray opposition to the nomination as anti-Hispanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going to War Over a Judge | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...Estrada is opposed by the Alliance for Justice. Where have these people been all these years? The Alliance is a far-left pressure group that makes its living by whipping up its liberal five- and ten-dollar contributors to oppose any conservative judicial nomination that they can make a fuss about. And here they have decided to take a Republican scalp back home to their membership...

Author: By Charles Fried, | Title: Trashing Estrada | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

...drawing from long experience and with a minimum of fuss, Basra is preparing for a prolonged conflict. The hospital is building up its blood bank, aiming for at least a month's supply of 100 pints daily, from the normal demand of 20 pints. "The one good thing about the war with Iran is that it made us experts at this kind of situation," Hamoodi says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Near The Front Line: A City Braces For Battle | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...initiative. In Chengdu last year, a government-owned machine-tool company was saved from bankruptcy after local bureaucrats ordered one of the city's four credit-guarantee offices to back loans to the factory. Officials feared that if the company closed, laid-off workers would raise a fuss. The case is not an isolated incident. Yan Guosong, general manager of a Chengdu loan-guarantee agency, estimates that more than half of government-backed business loans are now going to state enterprises. "The central government created guarantees to help small businesses, but it wound up lending to state-run companies anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Betting on the Wrong Horse | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

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