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President Bush tried once??more to show that compassion and conservatism can speak the same language, as he reopened the debate over immigration reform. First he had to reassure conservatives that he's still the sheriff, and so his trip to the Yuma, Ariz., borderlands included a dedication of a new border-patrol station and an inspection of the Predator, an unmanned plane used to track incursions. Deterrence is working, he said; arrests are down 68% here, which must mean people have given up trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walls | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...gray gravestones and a blue columbarium. The engines, which do not burn, lie heaped like brown skulls beside the remains of tillers that were made with welded pipes. Only a few boats rest in Gin Drinker's Bay now, smoldering near the scavenging dogs. There were hundreds here once???boats that packed people in holds that were intended for fish. The boats are ruins. For the priest, Trinh and for tens of thousands to date, all that is left of Viet Nam are these boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam: We Go Together in One Boat | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...Soviet foreign policy. "He is a troublemaker out of the 19th century," snaps a ranking French Gaullist. In fact, Kissinger has created a novel personal approach to diplomacy fashioned primarily out of self-confidence, charm, boundless energy, humor when applicable, and an ability to grasp what Kissinger, the once???and perhaps future?scholar, calls "the historical process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Superstar Statecraft: How Henry Does It | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

Daddy Ni died six years ago, never having seen Richard in a play or movie. He tried once???setting out to see My Cousin Rachel when it was playing in a Port Talbot cinema. On the way down the valley he stopped in 17 pubs. Finally settled in the theater, he watched the film begin. One of the first things Richard did on the screen was to pour himself a drink. "That's it," said Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: The Man on the Billboard | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Edward George Villiers Stanley won a Derby himself once???The British Derby at Epsom, in 1924, with Sansovino. He gave the £11,000 stake money to his trainer. Winning this race, which

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kentucky Derby | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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