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...plus sheer determination, reasserted the U.S.'s position as the global economic and military superpower that it is today. All the freedom-loving peoples of the world owe him a huge debt of gratitude. Jim Victa Hipolito Kawit, the Philippines Gibbs wrote that Reagan was "a man of easy grace and endless hope." But it's not hard to be that way when you're not bothered by the details of reality. Reagan was such a man. How many spiraling budget deficits and Nicaraguans killed by U.S.-supported contras does it take for Americans to stop patting themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/13/2004 | See Source »

It’s nice to know that someday in the future my name might grace the pages of the Wedding section of The New York Times—or, even more astonishingly, my hometown paper, The St. Helena Star...

Author: By Adam P. Schneider, | Title: Not Quite a Runway Model | 7/9/2004 | See Source »

...than-life characters, some of whom have been bouncing around Bangkok for decades. After more than a few fingers of bourbon, Squaronians delight in chewing the fat under the Texas Aggie flag and the moth-eaten Cape buffalo head that?alongside yellowed Waylon Jennings and Kitty Wells record covers?grace the bar's wood-paneled walls. They'll wax nostalgic over fortunes made and squandered, over women loved and comrades lost. They'll whisper of gun running in Laos, of Tet and of black ops. Tall tales? Who knows. Truth, legends and conspiracy theories overlap and blur once the booze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Splendor | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

Gibbs wrote that Reagan was "a man of easy grace and endless hope." But it's not hard to be that way when you're not bothered by the details of reality. Reagan was such a man. How many spiraling budget deficits and Nicaraguans killed by U.S.-supported contras does it take for Americans to stop patting themselves on the back and pause for a moment to look at the true legacy of this President? STEPHEN CONN Las Cruces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 5, 2004 | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

CAIRO, EGYPT—I was delighted to learn, within minutes of landing in Cairo, that Egypt has a sense of humor as loud and unconventional as my own. Humor, more than anything, has been my saving grace in Egypt, even as I navigate its crowded streets in the nervous anonymity of an analphabetic foreigner. My relationship with this country has been, from day one, founded on the fact that I find Egypt funny—and Egypt finds me funny...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, | Title: West Denial Virus | 7/2/2004 | See Source »

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