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...take down states? Since we've gobbled up Iraq, why don't you send two divisions into Syria and take Syria out, and then drive over the pass to Beirut, sweep down into the Litani Valley and take out the Hizballah from the rear? It sounds logical, plain, neat and simple, but nothing ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The General Jumps In | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...LADY AND THE UNICORN By Tracy Chevalier Is life ever as neat as it looks in art? Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) ventures back into art history and returns with another spellbinding account of how a great work?the 15th century Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, now in the National Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris?came to be. Her characters take turns telling the (fictional) story of the weavings' genesis?and the tangled web of art and heart that results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Haul | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...fakery? It's his life, not theirs, that is changed. Inspired by a legendary literary hoax in Australia, the Booker winner's new novel delves satisfyingly into a world of lies, literary demons and artistic pretense. The Lady And The Unicorn By Tracy Chevalier Is life ever as neat as it looks in art? Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) ventures back into art history and returns with another spellbinding account of how a great work - the 15th century Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, now in the National Museum of the Middle Ages in Paris - came to be. Her characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Haul | 9/28/2003 | See Source »

Social norms marketing may be easy to implement, but that does not mean that it works. H.L. Mencken may have been right when he said, “For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong...

Author: By Henry Wechsler, | Title: Social Norms Programs Fail | 9/12/2003 | See Source »

...Nadu. The border bisects the village. I never got a chance to find out at which point, though, because as well as being greeted by the views I was met by a horde of local men. As the only foreign tourist and woman in sight, I myself became, by neat irony, the photo opportunity. Dodging the inevitable "Coming from where?" and other, less-delicate conversational gambits, I beat a diplomatic retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Spot for High Tea | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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