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...involves seismic change--ripping up the 1972 Anti-ballistic Missile Treaty, which has been the cornerstone of arms control for nearly 30 years. Such a plan antagonizes other nuclear powers, like Russia and China, and it raises concerns among European allies that the mighty U.S., so generous with its power since 1945, wants to look after its own interests and let the rest of the world go hang. Star Wars skeptics look to Powell to apply the brakes, to make the true believers see reason before they blithely abandon the treaty and disturb global nuclear stability. Or if missile defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odd Man Out | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

There is no easy solution. Until professors realistically reevaluate their reading lists, students will continue to be confronted by more reading than they can do—at least, without becoming speed-reading hermits. Some of the more perceptive and generous teaching fellows will tell you which readings are essential and which are extraneous, but you can’t count...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: Where to Learn | 9/4/2001 | See Source »

...booming under the silver-tongued, pain-feeling Clinton, Democrats saved their tax cuts for the targeted few, arguing that not everybody really needed them, and spread the rest around. Health care, Medicare, saving Social Security first - you name it, Clinton could sell it. And Americans could afford to be generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Economic Slowdown Helps Sell the GOP Budget | 8/22/2001 | See Source »

...already the mother of three-year-old Nauman, she met Khar at a party in Karachi. "I thought he was a very big, rich, generous man," Fakhra recalls. "Why should I not catch him?" At the start, he impressed Fakhra by paying $340 to simply stay with her and talk. "Your face is so innocent," he said. "I like you so much." Fakhra had never encountered anyone like him. "I thought, 'What a man,'" she recalls. "'He hasn't done anything to me and he's so handsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evil That Men Do | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...single week in late July, European companies announced a total of 30,000 layoffs. Stock markets across the Continent may cheer the restructuring measures because companies need to slim down for leaner times. But what happens to the workers after they have been cut adrift from their jobs? How generous are their redundancy packages, how do they go about finding new jobs - and what if they can't? And how do countries, and companies, find the right balance between being compassionate to their workers and competitive in the global economy? Looking at how being laid off has affected workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Sweat, Toil and Tears | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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