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...compassionate conservative, even though he has allowed every antipoverty program he favors to be eviscerated by Congress. This week's outrage is the crippling of AmeriCorps, which he had pledged to increase in size. He probably believes that his tax cuts for the wealthy will help reduce the mammoth $455 billion budget deficit (which doesn't include the cost of Iraq), even though Ronald Reagan found that the exact opposite was true and had to raise taxes twice to repair the damage done by his 1981 cuts. And Bush probably believed, as the sign said, that the "mission" had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Misleads Himself | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

...time a new project is proposed new controversies arise. The square that was home to the book burning of 1933 is on its way to becoming an underground parking lot. And as much as some may miss it for nostalgic reasons, the German Democratic Republic-era steel and concrete mammoth which caps the baroque classical central street Unter den Linden, replete with columns and draped statues, will probably be replaced by a new castle perhaps much like the one torn down by the Soviets...

Author: By Julie S. Greenberg, | Title: A New Sense of Platz | 7/25/2003 | See Source »

...compassionate conservative, even though he has allowed every antipoverty program he favors to be eviscerated by Congress. This week's outrage is the crippling of AmeriCorps, which he had pledged to increase in size. He probably believes that his tax cuts for the wealthy will help reduce the mammoth $455 billion budget deficit (which doesn't include the cost of Iraq), even though Ronald Reagan found that the exact opposite was true and had to raise taxes twice to repair the damage done by his 1981 cuts. And Bush probably believed, as the sign said, that the "mission" had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Misleads Himself | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

...arrived like a baby on my office doorstep, weighing several pounds and wrapped in a white, fuzzy swaddle. Underneath the cloth was a photocopied advance of Craig Thompson's mammoth, 592-page "illustrated novel," "Blankets" (Top Shelf Productions; $29.95). Like a needy infant it demanded immediate attention, compelling me to read it right away until finished. It consumed my afternoon, but I felt this book was indeed gifted and destined for a great future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curl up with a Great Book | 7/11/2003 | See Source »

...immediately took responsibility for the attack but police suspected a banned Sunni Muslim group. Beached Blob CHILE Scientists were baffled by the remains of a huge, gelatinous sea creature that washed up on the country's southern Pacific coast. The 12.4-m long creature, which resembled a mammoth jellyfish with tougher flesh, was initially thought to be a whale. Experts decided it was a marine invertebrate, perhaps a giant squid, and they appealed for help in identifying the monster. Yanks Going In? LIBERIA The West African regional body, ECOWAS, agreed to send 3,000 peacekeeping troops to monitor the fragile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/6/2003 | See Source »

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