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...Karen Tumulty's caricature of Obama's bitter-voters observation as a "dismissal of small-town voters as narrow-minded, churchgoing gun nuts" who are "irrational and bigoted" represents political spin rather than a fair reading of his words. He was explaining why some voters focus on social issues rather than on their economic interests. Tumulty's article does little to help us understand Obama's "mangled" meaning and instead carelessly perpetuates his opponents' spin. Brian C. Jones, Waverly, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

Karen Tumulty's caricature of Obama's bitter-voters observation as a "dismissal of small-town voters as narrow-minded, churchgoing gun nuts" who are "irrational and bigoted" represents political spin rather than a fair reading of his words. He was explaining why some voters focus on social issues rather than on their economic interests. Tumulty's article does little to help us understand Obama's "mangled" meaning and instead carelessly perpetuates his opponents' spin. Brian C. Jones, WAVERLY, IOWA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

...Changing meat suppliers could also reduce the cruelty that animals on factory farms suffer. HUDS’ main meat wholesaler, US Foodservice, doesn’t enforce meaningful humane standards on its producers, with the result that pork can come from pregnant sows confined in crates so narrow they can’t turn around and chicken from slaughterhouses with no humane slaughter laws. In such conditions, antibiotics are the only way to keep animals alive, and farm antibiotic overuse is diluting the efficacy of human medicines...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Down on the Harvard Farm | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...When Harvard comes to the table, they say, ‘This is our plan, straight and narrow,’” Bruno said. “‘No one else is going to design our campus—we’re the smartest people in the world...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Approaches to Campus Expansion | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...concealed, windowless basement hideout, where he repeatedly had sexual intercourse with her and where she gave birth to seven of his children. The shocking case has reminded many Austrians of the fate of Natascha Kampusch, who was kidnapped at the age of 10 and kept in a narrow basement for eight years until she managed to flee in August 2006. But the senior investigator in Amstetten, Franz Polzer, said that the cruel deliberateness of Josef Fritzl's deed outstripped the Kampusch case "by far." Though cases of such longstanding hidden crimes have cropped up elsewhere in recent years, the revelation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellar Incest Case Shocks Austria | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

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