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...individual conversations are just one part of what the spy agency can do. It also has the technology to perform data mining, combing by computer through billions of phone calls and Internet messages and looking for patterns that may point to terrorist activity. That requires sifting through a mountain of individual communications to find the one that might lead to something. Under FISA, the NSA would have to obtain a warrant for each suspect phone number. Authorities argue that the FISA process is too slow to cover a situation in which a known terrorist calls a number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Bush Gone Too Far? | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...hushed, which let sounds of thunder and rain fall from the roof. "But I'm not concerned about that now," said King. "I just want to do God's will." There was a subdued call of "Yes!" in the crowd. "And he's allowed me to go up the mountain," King cried, building intensity. "And I've looked over. And I have s-e-e-e-e-e-n, the promised land." His voice searched a long peak over the word "seen," then hesitated and landed with quick relief on "the promised land," as though discovering a friend. He stared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Have Seen The Promised Land" | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...Because winter snows and heavy rains make many of Kashmir's roads impassable, the U.N.'s World Food Program (WFP) reckons that helicopters are the only means of bringing food to 400,000 quake victims stranded in remote mountain villages. While nearly a dozen governments, led by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia along with the World Bank and other financial institutions, have pledged more than $5.4 billion in funding for the long-term reconstruction of Pakistan, aid organizations say they aren't getting the backup they need. Private aid agencies complain that donors are tired of digging into their pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Double Jeopardy | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...Tower, even zeppelins, as in Ivry Quay (circa 1907). Rousseau's people were not always successful. Hands look like kilos of sausages, and some of his portraits verge on the grotesque - the child in Boy on the Rocks (1895-97) resembles a stuffed toy perched uncomfortably on some small mountain peaks. Others appear overambitious failures, until you look further. The monumental Portrait of a Woman (1895) is one of several Rousseaus bought by Picasso. It might seem a clumsy copy of a commercial photograph, until you notice the woman's hand holding an upturned, withered branch, and beyond the balcony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jungles Of The Mind | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...freshening” Marissa’s “glass.” So skillful, that Alex.3. Feeling sexually frustrated from his lack of horizontal mambo-ness with Kirsten, Sandy will turn to immensely peculiar office-worker Matt. They will go all “Brokeback Mountain.” They will get caught by Matt’s stripper friend who is working her way through law school. About 17 kinds of awkward.2. Trey will reappear, and Marissa, once done with both Johnny and Ryan, will fall for him. On their first date, they will slow-dance...

Author: By Alex C. Britell, Jessica C. Coggins, and Kevin Ferguson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: TVWATCH:YearInReview | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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