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During World War II and the Korean War, Stafford toured extensively, performing for U.S. servicemen. She was shy and neither greatly beautiful nor a huge theatrical presence. But because she was so dignified and understated, soldiers could identify with her. When she sang, servicemen overseas felt as if they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jo Stafford | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

Neither Borrower Nor Lender Be I enjoyed Michael Kinsley's essay [Dec. 15]. We have borrowed, and not from fellow Americans but from China, Japan and other countries. We may have more clout in the world militarily but do others have more clout economically? I have read that what really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Mumbai's Tragedy | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

The black-turbaned cleric added that Israeli military movements along the border with Lebanon could be a "defensive measure," but warned that "the enemy, with Arab collaboration, the financial crisis and the transition period in the United States, might take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attacking Gaza, Israel Worries About Lebanon | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

Like John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Alan Sillitoe and other novelists and dramatists in what was dubbed the "Angry Young Men" group (after Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger), Pinter was not a product of the Oxford-Cambridge factory for leaders in politics, industry and the arts. Being neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

But in his Nobel year, 2005, when he was wracked with infirmities, he could still distinguish politics from life. "When my wife Antonia is pouring my cranberry juice in the morning," he said, "I don't regard that as a political act. Nor am I thinking politically at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pinter of Our Discontent | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

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