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...life--good, bad, spectacular, horrific--we tend to return in short order to our set range. Some post-tsunami images last week of smiling Asian children returning to school underscored this amazing capacity to right ourselves. And a substantial body of research documents our tendency to return to the norm. A study of lottery winners done in 1978 found, for instance, that they did not wind up significantly happier than a control group. Even people who lose the use of their limbs to a devastating accident tend to bounce back, though perhaps not all the way to their base line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Science of Happiness | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

...below market price and then reap huge profits. The U.N. has been an anti-American club for years. One of the many reasons its credibility is questioned is the failure to enforce its resolutions against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Scott Anderson Green Valley, Arizona, U.S. So Republican Senator Norm Coleman thinks Annan should resign his post simply because the alleged oil-for-food scandal happened on his watch? What, then, does Coleman think George W. Bush should do? What about the "catastrophic success" of the war in Iraq and the biggest federal deficit in history? Perhaps Coleman can suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/6/2005 | See Source »

...Republican senator Norm Coleman thinks Annan should resign his post simply because the alleged oil-for-food scandal happened on his watch? What, then, does Coleman think George W. Bush should do? What about the "catastrophic success" of the war in Iraq and the biggest federal deficit in history? Perhaps Coleman can suggest the appropriate punishment for those things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 10, 2005 | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...five separate congressional investigations. All this has trained the hot lights on Annan, a second-term Secretary- General and Nobel Peace laureate who finds himself fighting to defend his office in the face of a small but determined band of congressional foes. After holding a single public hearing, Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican chairing one of the congressional inquiries, wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week that "Kofi Annan should resign, because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch." Administration officials distanced themselves from Coleman's remarks, but the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fight of His Life | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

That’s quite the dedication for a seasonal hobby. But like baseball, broadcasting is a genealogical norm for the Wolff family...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wolff Finds His Voice Off the Diamond | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

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