Word: mother
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Anointing Obama I suggest TIME give up the charade and change the name of the magazine to Obama Weekly. The timing and tone of your cover story on Obama's mother made your issue [Apr. 21] look more like a campaign p.r. piece than legitimate news story. Something tells me I shouldn't hold my breath waiting for soft-focus, warm-and-fuzzy cover stories about the mothers of Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Katherine Whan, Decatur...
...TIME's pro-Obama slant is so transparent that it seriously calls into question your objectivity in reporting the news. The icing on the cake is your recent cover story "A Mother's Story," which serves as a convenient valentine to the Obama campaign just weeks before the Pennsylvania primary. Craig Garshelis, San Francisco...
...Your April 21 cover story should have been titled "Raising Obama: A Grandmother's Story." It would have resonated more had there been more focus on Obama's life with the grandparents who raised him and less delicate tiptoeing around his mother's often unfortunate choices and impetuous decisions. Linda Dahlheimer, St. Louis...
...article on Obama's mother - one of the best I have read - drags you into the complex worlds of poverty, biracial living, racism and the pursuit of knowledge. Obama knows the visceral reality of these issues better than many or all of his contenders - these born-with-a-golden-spoon candidates. Prabhduev Konana, Austin, Texas...
...whole world and its mother has expressed an opinion about Yale senior Aliza Shvarts and her ill-begotten senior art project, which allegedly involved repeatedly inseminating herself and taking abortofacient drugs, filming her miscarriages, and then smearing the blood on a big plastic cube. Speculation continues over whether she actually carried out the acts or whether (as is more likely) it’s all a big “creative fiction” in aid of discourse, discomfort, and one student’s 15 minutes of fame...