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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...moral argument is simple, strong and simplistic: Yasser Arafat is an evildoer who has never intended to make peace. He winks at terrorism; he tries to purchase arms from the Iranians. He flirts with peace, then flees. The ideological argument has the subtlety of a punch in the nose: it is based in the Sharon-Likud conceit that Arabs "only understand" strength. This has a certain resonance with tough guys like Rumsfeld and Cheney. America's Likudnik tilt has empowered the Sharon government to preside over a dramatic increase in illegal - that is, unapproved - West Bank settlements: 70 new outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Israel Is Wrapped Up in Iraq | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

...Sometimes the phrase ‘cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face’ has a sadly clear meaning,” Knowles wrote in an e-mail. “One can only be sad that a few intemperate residents will have blocked such a valuable improvement of their neighborhood...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya and Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Tunnel Plans Axed After Year of Negotiation | 1/31/2003 | See Source »

...Johnson Jenkins says she smells trouble. Stretching out before her is a vast panorama of blackened slopes, a grim legacy of the fire last August that burned more than 150,000 acres of the Sequoia National Forest. But it isn't the charred timber that makes her wrinkle her nose. The ill odor, she says, is coming from Washington, specifically from President George W. Bush's controversial plan to increase logging in national forests in the name of reducing the risk of fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Bush Gets His Way On The Environment | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...only light blankets--never a duvet or a poufy quilt that could cover a baby's nose and stifle breathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bedtime for Baby | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

...keeping the crew loose, asserting the primal jester inside the armor of a star's machismo. So to wrap up the temple take, he has a quiet word with Morgenstern and steps back to leave the actress alone--staring dolefully into the camera with a bright-red clown nose he has stuck on her face. Cut. Print. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passion of Mel Gibson | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

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