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Can America save Iraq from itself? Yes, but it would require giving up the illusion that the Iraqis can fix their own problems. They can't. The Americans created this mess; it's their responsibility to fix it. They'd need 30,000 more coalition soldiers and a real willingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What We Would Leave Behind | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

Of course we would find it incredibly sinful to take direct compensation from our tours. Instead we encourage our followers to increase their karma by giving alms to the shamans in front of Our Lady of Au Bon Pain and Temple CVS. But we’re no frugal Franciscans...

Author: By Peter J. Martinez and D. A. Wallach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Bell Lap 2: Tomorrow’s Campus Tour, Today! | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

In describing New York parents, Gopnik does not fail to leave out the “yuppie” factor. He details the production of a “Peter Pan” play put on at his seven-year-old son’s private school, where an ad...

Author: By Jessica X.Y. Rothenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Childhood in the Big Apple | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

As I have written before, this profoundly European Pope is inviting the people of his continent to become aware of the central, inescapable character of Christianity within their identity, or risk losing it. That may be a legitimate goal, but Benedict's narrow definition of European identity is deeply troubling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ... And Where He's Still in the Dark | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

The premise: A brittle and conniving Hollywood agent (Julie White) is trying to land a big movie project for her hot actor client, while keeping under wraps the fact that he "has a slight recurring case of homosexuality." Thus the groundwork is laid for a "trenchant satire about truth and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway's Lame Little Dog | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

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