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North Korea: Bush initially tried to reverse the Clinton Administration's policy of multilateral talks offering North Korea incentives for refraining from building nuclear weapons. The North couldn't be trusted to keep its word, Bush said, and he wasn't necessarily wrong. But he soon discovered that he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Defaulted to Bush Foreign Policy Positions | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

Yet Theroux makes a passionate defense of his genre when asked what role travel writing can play in a globalized world where much that was exotic seems increasingly like one giant 7-11 franchise. "That's just an illusion," Theroux claims, "because the customs, obligations, pieties that govern the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Veteran Travel Writer Finds a Muse in Calcutta | 12/24/2009 | See Source »

But it was the final illusion that really proved Wright to be a master magician. He took a $20 bill which had the name of a Pfoho resident written on it, turned it into one dollar bill, then opened a bag which contained an orange, peeled the orange, and revealed...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pfocus Pocus | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

“For those of us who believe in physics,” Einstein once wrote to a friend, “this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion.” Perhaps what we have imagined to be a philosophical question has now revealed...

Author: By Shaomin C. Chew | Title: The Fate of Science | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

The new Prisoner keeps some of version 1.0's hallmarks, notably Rover, a balloon-like orb that patrols the Village and enforces discipline. But thematically, it at once changes very much and too little. For instance, in McGoohan's show--a Cold War story of totalitarianism--giving the Villagers numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prisoner Review: A Pretentious Reimagining | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

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