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...lucky enough to have been there to see her and talk to her before she became unconscious. Perhaps us children being there with her before she died gave us some peace. But I and my sisters and brothers still miss our Mum, and my eldest sister is 72 years old! Patrick Kwai-sum Poon, BURTON-ON-TRENT, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shrinking Democrats | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...government’s apparent reluctance to yield under this scrutiny makes Staples’s decision to keep mum on Darfur all the more misguided. This not to say that Staples was wrong to insist international diplomacy should come first—it certainly should...

Author: By Joanna Naples-mitchell | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

Wilders, who once said, "We should become intolerant of the intolerant," is keeping mum for now. But, shortly after the film's release, he said that he was ready to have a dialogue with Muslims about Islam and Fitna, the first time the anti-immigration politician has agreed to debate his adversaries. But whether his adversaries now want to talk to him is an open question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dutch Shrug for Anti-Muslim Film | 3/28/2008 | See Source »

...London, many in hardscrabble housing projects such as the Moorlands Estate in Brixton, south London, where Solomon Wilson, 23, and his friend Nathan Foster grew up. Wilson says he was "no saint" when younger, but he benefited from a happy home life. "I take my hat off to my mum," he says. As he saunters along Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, he's trailed by a posse of local girls and boys who just want to hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Mean Streets | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...unconscious on a bench in the corner. Sinclair concluded my introduction to journalism by placing me in a cab with the fare home. When my parents opened the front door, I stumbled to the bathroom and was spectacularly sick. Then I reappeared before them with the life-changing words: "Mum, Dad, I want to be a journalist; I want to be like Kevin Sinclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storyteller | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

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