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...What do you expect them to do - fall on the ground and grovel?' ALEXANDER DOWNER, Australian Foreign Minister, rejecting requests that police and prosecutors apologize for detaining Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef on suspicion of his involvement in June's U.K. terror plots. All charges against Haneef were dropped on July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...those ethnically diverse projects, meanwhile, has also long contained its own racially aggressive "shock" element, with the rejoinder "ta race" (your race) a kind of generic, all-purpose slight. Clearly, the political "filter" in the U.S. public square that prompts a Michael Richards or a Mel Gibson to grovel apologetically following publicly recorded racial insults is considerably less developed in France. Indeed, last year's riots were a stark reminder of how poorly France has done in integrating its diversity, remaining locked in an officially "color-blind" national ideology that often simply avoids confronting the problems of racial inequality. France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism Unfiltered in France | 1/6/2007 | See Source »

...bemused by Kinsley's wish for an apology from Washington's neocons. I feel it's enough that the country has spoken in the midterm elections and demanded a change in dialogue and, I hope, direction from our political élite in Washington. To expect the neocons to grovel is a bit much. Russ Smith Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...bemused by Kinsley's wish for an apology from Washington's neocons. I feel it's enough that the country has spoken in the midterm elections and demanded a change in dialogue and, I hope, direction from our political élite in Washington. To expect the neocons to grovel is a bit much. Russ Smith Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ascendancy of the Centrists? | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...bemused by Michael Kinsley's wish for an apology from Washington's neocons. I feel it's enough that the country has spoken in the midterm elections and demanded a change in dialogue and, I hope, direction from our political élite in Washington. To expect the neocons to grovel is a bit much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 11, 2006 | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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