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...simply poor rural residents who have been beaten down for decades by the military and still believe in the FARC's original social-justice crusade. The guerrillas dress in civilian clothes and can be hard to distinguish from local farmers, and the difficult terrain is perfect for hit-and-run guerrilla warfare. The government "could not sustain an offensive on this scale without U.S. help," says Alberto. "They use American money to set up high mountain battalions, pay informants, for training, helicopters, boats and every type of war materiel. We believe we could overthrow the Colombian state if it weren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among the FARC's True Believers | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

MEERKAT MANOR star Rocket Dog killed in hit-and-run, the fourth death in two seasons. Remaining meerkats demand hazardous-duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...longer have a moral compass.' DARYL ROBERTS, police chief of Hartford, Conn., after security cameras captured dozens of witnesses driving past a 78-year-old hit-and-run victim without stopping to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...Climates was so popular worldwide that it was at the center of a funny short film the Coen brothers contributed to last year's celebration of the 6oth Cannes Festival. So there were high hopes for Ceylan's new effort: the story of a politician, involved in a hit-and-run accident, who convinces his driver to take the rap, then has an affair with the driver's wife while the man is in prison. If you think this sounds like some crackling crime yarn from James M. Cain or Patricia Highsmith, don't get your hopes up. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or Less | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

Most U.S. teachers, on the other hand, have no time to work with colleagues during the school day. They plan by themselves and get a few hit-and-run workshops after school, with little opportunity to share knowledge or improve their practice. In a study of mathematics teaching and learning in Japan, Taiwan and the U.S., James Stigler and Harold Stevenson noted that "Asian class lessons are so well crafted [because] there is a very systematic effort to pass on the accumulated wisdom of teaching practice to each new generation of teachers and to keep perfecting that practice by providing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How They Do It Abroad | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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