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...just make the gesture of stroking a beard to refer to Fidel. Among the many photographs at the family house in Birán is one of a young boy in a cart. The official caption says the picture is of Fidel. On the print itself, someone has written in pen: "Soy yo, Raúl." "It is me, Raúl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fidel's Brother: The Raul I Know | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

...raising appeals and victory cries that were going up in the hours after President George W. Bush used his veto for the first time, it may have looked as though the Democrats had finally found their golden issue--and a social one at that. "With one stroke of his pen," declared Democratic chairman Howard Dean, "President Bush has once again denied hope to millions of Americans and their families who suffer from diabetes, spinal-cord injuries and Alzheimer's." Added Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey: "This will be remembered as a Luddite moment in American history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Science | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...away†nor a threat to “smash his [expletive] face in†persuaded him that I did not want to “be his friend.†It ended only when I emerged, armed (rationally) with a pen, a key, and a coat hanger in order to flee past him to reception.Perhaps such unpleasant reminders of my vulnerability should be enough to make me stay at home. Any woman bold enough to stray alone from the family fold is surely fair game. She would be better off finding some nice secretarial work close...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel, | Title: Progress By Pho Pas | 7/28/2006 | See Source »

...style home with three bedrooms, two baths, trees, a high wood fence around the backyard and a spot to park the bus. Rusty took Andrea to close the deal. She was now receiving Haldol monthly and looked like a zombie, says Rusty, but he remembers she could hold the pen, signing here and initialing there, agreeing to pay the mortgage along with him. "I wanted her name to be on the deed," Rusty says, hoping the serenity of the backyard would speed her recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...example instead of by force. Democracy cannot be exported from a land where human rights are abused and ignored. Democracy is not a coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

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