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...currently engaged in an undeclared civil war between those who value individual liberty and those who think it is too dangerous. The latter group espouses a craven dependency on a government that is more than willing to micromanage our lives. The fact that you celebrate two individuals who are anathema to American values shows that Time is better suited to George Orwell's Oceania than to the U.S. This country did not achieve greatness with a mind-set of "safety first" but rather "live free or die." Mike Glaser, CINCINNATI, OHIO...
...cannabis culture has become so prevalent that the use of the word petard is as likely to refer to a joint as to its more literal meaning, "firecracker." Myriad nicknames for hash and marijuana have passed into the modern lexicon, such as chichon, beuh, teuteu, matos and teuch - the latter being an approximate phonic reversal of the borrowed English word most commonly used for hashish (hint: bulls produce...
...secretary for the Foundation For the Future, a grant-making organization run by former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anwar Ibrahim. A controversial figure in Malaysia, Ibrahim spent five years in prison on corruption and sodomy charges before the latter conviction was overturned in September...
...National Gallery of Victoria until Oct. 7, some of these will rub shoulders with cutting-edge contemporaries such as performance artist Marina Abramovic, photographer Gregory Crewdson and Matthew Barney, who refuses to be confined to one medium. The latter also happens to grace Peggy's palazzo, albeit very oddly, in the current show "All in the Present Must Be Transformed: Matthew Barney and Joseph Beuys." Rylands imagines Guggenheim "would have been intrigued and bemused" by Barney's Baroque video antics. Still, "the avant-garde experience is absolutely Peggy's spirit"-one that's intoxicating Melbourne right...
Just as much a wild card, however, are Floridians themselves. They are environmentally conscious on issues like Everglades preservation and offshore oil drilling. Even Crist's conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush, the President's younger brother, championed the former and opposed the latter. Still, the car is king in Florida to a greater degree than it is even in California; and the peninsula is scattered with dead initiatives to curb its use, especially local tax efforts to improve the state's virtually nonexistent public transportation. But Crist, whose optimism is as bright as his tan, isn't worried. "Floridians love their...