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...signs of appeasement while at the same time doing everything necessary to prevent a potentially volatile standoff from escalating into a crisis. He muzzled the hawks, withdrew U.S. vessels from the area and calmed American emotions to give diplomacy its best chance. Whether he helped or not, Dad ought to be proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.-China Standoff: The Final Scorecard | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

...vital secrets, but its loss (though it may yet come back in Ziploc bags) was still a setback, and the military had little option but to sit on its hands while the diplomats crafted a humble not-quite-apology when the Pentagon was more inclined to believe the Chinese ought to be apologizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S.-China Standoff: The Final Scorecard | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

...Roces argues that directors ought to be licensed and then fined if they make films deemed pornographic. This scares the movie crowd. "We're going back to a Jurassic period," says Joey Reyes, director of Live Show. Tight censorship may help kill off the Filipino movie industry, whose production slumped from 144 films in 1999 to only 84 last year. Local films are losing out against foreign blockbusters and video pirates. A case in point is Live Show: with all the buzz over its banning, many more Filipinos?including underage kids?are catching it on pirated videos than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Scissors | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...what I will say, but this is the first time I've sat with evangelical Christians to talk about this topic at Harvard," Gomes said. "The fact that this Veritas Forum can risk having me here is a signal step in the right direction. All I know is this ought to be the start of something too long delayed...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Veritas Forum Changes Focus | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...opposition. Sources told TIME that Democratic leader Richard Gephardt complained that the increased hard-money limits directly to Daschle. He was especially angered by plans to tie the limits to the inflation rate. "If politicians make their special-interest money indexable for inflation," said a Democratic leadership aide, "they ought to index the minimum wage for working people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day Dawning | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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