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...stark visualization of ugliness, suffering and pain. Didn't any of your photographers catch a pear tree blossoming? A wren scolding? A schoolboy playing? John F. Waldron Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. Checking Out Bush's Numbers The essay by Patricia Marx, "Check Out My New Numbers," with totally made-up statistics about President Bush [Dec. 19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over the strange mind of W. or with Time's taking up a full page to develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler...
...essay by Patricia Marx, "Check out My New Numbers," with totally made-up statistics about President Bush [Dec.19], was a real dud. I have no problem with puzzling over the strange mind of W. or with Time's taking up a full page to develop a keen, witty perspective on some topical issue, but Marx's piece was, at best, filler. It seemed like one of those papers I wrote on the school bus on the way to class despite having had two weeks to get it done. TOM WRIGHT Burke...
...here’s the weirdest part: the faux “debate” was moderated by Forrest Sawyer, one of television’s more appealing talking heads. So, okay, Sawyer exists in “The West Wing” world, but then so do made-up countries like Qumar (which, for those of you playing the home game, is supposedly in some southern portion of actual Iran, but then I never exactly aced geography, so who knows?). NBC’s entirely dedicated to this phony election. Boasting fully interactive campaign sites for each candidate...
Just to get onto Beale Street, which is closed to cars in the evening hours, we had to pull out our IDs and prove our age. Inside the gate, brightly dressed revelers tripped down the clean streets. Mosquitoes were everywhere, as were, we realized, bachelorette parties: flocks of heavily made-up women trying hard to get another woman, identical to them except for her painfully nervous manners and lace veil, as intoxicated as possible...
Vaghar—who, according to friends at Harvard, frequented final clubs and partook in the undergraduate social scene before leaving the Extension School—admitted to running a real estate scam in which she used made-up e-mail addresses and fake bank accounts when subletting apartments to unsuspecting tenants. Over the course of a year, she allegedly defrauded at least 15 victims out of tens of thousands of dollars...