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...League institution, and I am surrounded by people who devoted their high school years to trying to get into Harvard, Yale and Stanford. Does an Ivy League degree necessarily equate with success? Education is priceless no matter which college you are able to attend. ALEFIYAH YUSUF SHIKARI Darien, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

DIED. Vashti McCollum, 93, Illinois housewife and humanist (a term she preferred to atheist) whose objections to religion classes at her son's school led to a landmark 1948 Supreme Court ruling protecting separation of church and state in public education; in Champaign, Ill. After her son decided he did not want to attend the Protestant-oriented classes--Jews and Catholics went off-campus for instruction--she sued the school board. McCollum, who endured threats to her family and lost her job, later said she fought because "I knew I was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...alive tomorrow. Although I disagreed with the decision to initiate war in Iraq, I can now imagine the consequences of Bush's withdrawing American troops. Thank you for shedding light on the situation in Iraq. More important, thank you for your remarkable insight and brutal honesty. Erika Jang Evanston, Ill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 4, 2006 | 8/31/2006 | See Source »

...likeable in that she was happy and filled with joy. She was very childlike and that part of her could pop out at any moment. And although she had so many despicable behaviors, she never had any ill will towards anyone and was always trying to do the right thing. So it put a weird spin on her as a character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Megan Mullally | 8/30/2006 | See Source »

...main fault line is not so much religion, but the legacy of war: Muslims, who were ill-prepared for the war, took much more casulties than Serbs, who were well armed and supported by Serbia; they now feel that Serbs were unjustly rewarded by being allowed to have their own statelet in Bosnia. Tihic, and other leading Muslim politicians have repeatedly stated that Republika Srpska "is built on genocide and agression" and should therefore be abolished. Serbian leaders, such as Srpska's Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, would have none of that. "Serbs are sick and tired of being collectively treated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Fragile Peace in Bosnia Crumbling? | 8/29/2006 | See Source »

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