Word: orphans
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Conservatives are alarmed about the tone of our political debate. Interviewed last week in TIME, Fox TV talk-show host Bill O'Reilly trumped the standard definition of chutzpah--a man who kills his parents, then pleads for mercy as an orphan--by complaining that the country is "as polarized as it's ever been in the history of the Republic." In TIME two weeks ago, essayist Charles Krauthammer expressed astonishment at the level of antagonism toward President Bush among liberals. Newly anointed New York Times columnist David Brooks has deplored both the viciousness and the shallowness of today...
...girl smiling. There's a big minivan and a bigger play set. There's a countertop completely covered with food. "This is a very nice place," Emmanuel Williams, 10, says in a quiet voice. "I would like to go to this place." From the point of view of an orphan in Liberia, suburban America looks like paradise. But for Emmanuel, it is a paradise beyond reach; at his age he is unlikely to be adopted. For 13 others living in the same orphanage, however, the pictures could turn into reality - and salvation. Monrovia is essentially under siege. Food, clean water...
...died because of brutal attacks, based on false pretences. I feel ashamed for my country, which has sanctioned the killing of thousands more innocents, based on false pretences. Was our killing any less horrid, justified by faked evidence rather than religious fundamentalism? I should think the suffering of an orphan would be just as great, whether she lost her mother in the World Trade Center or the Baghdad ghetto...
Ever wonder where lost luggage winds up if it never finds its way home? At unclaimedbaggage.com the website for a 31-year-old store in Scottsboro, Ala., you can buy orphan luggage and cargo at a fraction of the original cost. The site has sold a wide variety of lost goods, including cell-phone accessories, a 75-carat aquamarine, even a suit of armor. "We often say that if these bags could talk, what a story they'd tell," says Bryan Owens, Unclaimed Baggage's CEO. How does the company get its hands on these goods? Airlines pay settlements...
...good at it that her lawyers are constantly swatting down copycats trying to cash in on Pottermania. Her legal team recently won victories against a Chinese knock-off, Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon, and a Russian novel about Tanya Grotter, an orphan with magical powers who attends a boarding school. Rowling was badly shaken when an American writer named Nancy Stouffer claimed she had stolen the word muggle and otherwise plagiarized Stouffer's work. A New York City federal judge found that Stouffer had "perpetrated a fraud." It felt, Rowling says, "as if some strange woman...