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Even though Krauthammer's stance on the Iraq war gives aid and comfort to those who continue to believe devoutly in the military option, they are becoming fewer in number and even less influential. There is one appropriate answer to those who still insist on loving the military option: "Look again at Iraq, stupid!" Howard F. Sosbee, SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Intelligence on Iran | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

...precursor to freeing three Americans held by the guerrillas. The debacle has now left Chavez looking humiliated, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe looking churlish and the leftist rebels, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces - known by their Spanish acronym, the FARC - looking more than ever like the deceitful thugs their critics insist they've become over the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez's New Diplomatic Defeat | 1/1/2008 | See Source »

Rural basketball coaches, inner-city math and music teachers - they are, as we all know, everywhere in the movies, inspiring their unlikely charges to equally unlikely triumphs. Most of these films insist they are based on "true" stories, though none that I know of confess to those melodramatic heightenings of the facts that, sooner or later, place lumps in our throats - which, according to taste, we either wallow in or try to swallow back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Debaters' Gratifying Clichés | 12/26/2007 | See Source »

...just a fig leaf." Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda broached the abductions issue with U.S. President George W. Bush during his visit in November, but Bush has made no promises regarding negotiations with the North. In the meantime, the general public continues to rally behind the abductees' families, who insist that Japan continue to hold the line. "I want to know why this happened, where she is and how I can help to bring her home," says Masaru Honma, whose younger sister, Megumi Yokota, was kidnapped in 1977 at age 13. "The fact that they sent us a stamped death certificate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Problem With N. Korea Talks | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...Bomb’s editors insist that their magazine is aimed at a broad audience, and still sound vexed about a 2004 Crimson headline that called it a “porn magazine.” “Throughout our proposal we said very clearly that [porn] was not the point of H Bomb,” co-founder Katharina P. Cieplak-von Baldegg ’06-’07 said recently...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After Hiatus, Rethinking H Bomb | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

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