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Apologizes to anyone willing to listen???including Congress?for not paying more attention to the leak probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaks, Lies and the HP Way | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...Fabulous Invalid cannot be killed off by an overdose of mediocrity; it can be rehabilitated by frequent injections of imagination and daring. As long as someone has a story to tell or a song to sing, and as long as someone else is willing to sit down and listen???for two hours or 2½?Broadway will be as good a place as any to do it. ?By Richard Corliss. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York and Martha Smilgis/Los Angeles

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: ... And Another Boffo Season | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...accused China of almost daily incursions. Charges and countercharges enlivened every artillery barrage and exchange of small-arms fire, not to mention kidnaping, livestock rustling and planting of poisoned bamboo stakes. In its loud political buildup to the invasion, China underscored the border aggravations to anyone who would listen???at the U.N., in diplomatic exchanges, and in a shower of communiques. Peking also claimed that Viet Nam was mobilizing for war by drafting recruits at a rate that surpassed the height of the war against Saigon and the U.S., and by calling 200,000 ex-servicemen back under arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A War of Angry Cousins | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...gained the first murmurs of acclaim; within five minutes he had brought the crowd to its feet. When he wanted to drive home a point, it was not a jab but a double uppercut as he thrust both fists in the air. And when he wanted the world to listen???as he did last week?John Vorster switched from Afrikaans to deliberate and slightly accented English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Defiant White Tribe | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

Fathers who listen???and then act in some public way?are more numerous than many imagine. When Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel wrote his famous post-Cambodia letter to President Nixon, his plea for more understanding of the young was based not on impulse but on his long experience with his six sons, aged eight to 28. Jack Hickel, 19, a biology student at the University of San Francisco, defines his relationship with his parents as "super-good." Hickel never indulged in what Jack calls "fairy tale" moralizing. When Jack sampled the "weekend hippie" scene in Haight-Ashbury several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When the Young Teach and the Old Learn | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

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