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...going on, which seem to me to be very substantive, that could affect all of us, and instead, you see a lot of this back-fence gossip. So I said something to the Nightline guy about waterboarding, and if the Bush administration didn't think it was torture, they ought to do some personal investigation. Someone in the Bush family should actually be waterboarded so they could report on it to George. I said, I didn't think he would do it, but I suggested Jenna be waterboarded and then she could talk about whether or not she thought...
Sort of a, 'This is what the media's actually interested it, so let's just put it out there' thing? I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. I mean, I know people who can tell...
...Toyota's Prius design appeared in TIME's "Heroes of the Environment" issue [Oct. 29]. I have appreciated Toyota's manufacturing vision ever since they launched a low-emission car a decade ago. The gasoline-electric hybrid Prius is both a feat of excellent marketing and technology. But Toyota ought to do more and more in combating the dangers of the greenhouse effect. The time has come for them to install this hybrid system in all their cars, and for other manufacturers to follow suit. Yoshitsugu Kato, Gifu, Japan
...health-care plan is courageous and detailed. I'll go along with detailed. Indeed, it might be the best of those proposed. But courageous? Why hasn't she submitted such legislation since she became a Senator six years ago? The answer, as anyone but her most blindly loyal supporters ought to see, is that there would have been no political advantage in doing so. Now is the ideal time to present it to voters as a key part of her platform. And Iowa, where the first votes will be cast, was the ideal place to unveil it. If that...
...reforms in the second half of 2008. As it happens, that is when France - the biggest recipient of E.U. farm subsidies - will hold the E.U.'s rotating presidency. German and British officials have already signaled their resistance to the plans, arguing that larger farms are more efficient and ought not be penalized...