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...Matter of Omission I am writing to you as a reader of TIME magazine for over 30 years and a dedicated subscriber for almost as long. I wish to convey my outrage and disappointment at the minimal coverage of the Australian bushfires [Feb. 23]. Surely a natural disaster of this magnitude deserves more extensive coverage in the magazine than the token items in Briefing. Is the death of hundreds of Australians not newsworthy enough? Or do you simply not care? John Zic, Punchbowl, Australia...
...Celebrities are agents of entertainment, not the “elect” who are destined to transform our society for the better. They are merely a group of people with the rare ability to make their audiences laugh and cry on cue, and such talent is merely a matter of good fortune. And why should we allow people whose “prominence” is as arbitrary as the films playing at a local theater to wield any major influence on political and social discourse...
...many others - the folks who feel most strongly about marriage and most passionately supported the expensive campaign to defeat gay marriage - the issue of nomenclature is only the beginning. They are against not just gay marriage but also gay couples - and especially against government sanctioning of those relationships, no matter what they are called...
...took to the podium in the East Room to tag AIG by name, calling its financial predicament a product of "recklessness and greed." The President said he has asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to "block these bonuses and make the American taxpayers whole," adding, "This isn't just a matter of dollars and cents. It's about our fundamental values...
...counter-insurgency effort in Iraq. The definition of a sig act, however, is not fixed. According to some soldiers, some sig acts today (those without fatalities, say) never would have been considered as such a year or two ago. And the value of the metric is a matter of contention, even on the record, among battalion commanders. The Lieutenant Colonel responsible for East Mosul says it is an excellent, valuable metric for progress, while his counterpart in West Mosul says the opposite. (See pictures of the U.S. military's struggle to retain control of Mosul...