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...know what to do with it, an agency that hates embarrassment above all things. So it was extraordinary to see last week what it takes to bring an agency like the FBI to its knees, make it admit defeat and promise--yet again--to mend its ways. Minneapolis, Minn., agent Coleen Rowley's blistering 13-page memo, first published by TIME, detailed some warnings that had been ignored and the opportunities that were missed even when the FBI agents working on the strange case of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui implored headquarters to act before something really bad happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Far Do We Want The FBI To Go? | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...real scandal in the church is how the hierarchy has swept under the rug the actions of pedophile priests. Being homosexual should not be equated with being a pedophile. This misleading connotation is causing great pain to many gays and to innocent priests. JOYCE RHODY Albert Lea, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 10, 2002 | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

That joke is not so funny anymore. Last November a clinically depressed 21-year-old named Shawn Woolley shot himself in his apartment in Hudson, Minn. Woolley played EverQuest for two years before his death, and his mother, who discovered her son's body when she came to get him for Thanksgiving, plans to sue Sony. Her attorney says the game was designed to be "as addictive as possible" and should have carried a warning label. Sony declines comment on the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...studies and abandon school altogether--if they're not kicked out first. In Modesto, black students are 2 1/2 times as likely as their white peers to be expelled. This kind of treatment persists not only in the farm country of Modesto but also in urban districts like Minneapolis, Minn. During the 1998-99 school year, only one state (South Carolina) suspended 9% or more of its white students, but 35 states suspended that percentage of blacks, according to The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. The syndrome has even acquired a catchphrase: "learning while black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning While Black | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...your tolerance for risk? If it just doesn't feel right, get out of there. If your small town has only a few planners, it's worth looking elsewhere. "I have more clients in Chicago than I do in Minneapolis," says Ross Levin, a financial adviser based in Minneapolis, Minn. "We e-mail and talk on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women Aren't Afraid to Ask | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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