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...life? Samir Id-Deen Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, U.S. Klein is right. None of the blathering about being misled into war matters at all. What really counts is what would happen if we left Iraq before the new government was ready to take over all the duties we now perform. Would the Middle East situation worsen or not? Would the U.S. be seen as weak and thereby become more vulnerable to attack both at home and abroad? We must see our mission through in Iraq. And I say this as a father whose son will be entering the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Amazing Inventions | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...minutes before U2 was due to perform, Bono strolled in and plopped himself down--not on the couch or near it but on top of it, like a household pet. Then he began talking about the one interest that Clooney, Wolfowitz and almost everyone else who had come to Scotland that day had in common: persuading developed nations to help lift 1 billion people out of extreme poverty. Bono's precise words on the subject are lost to history. "I couldn't stop looking at him," says Clooney. "He's so affectless. You felt like you're in the living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Constant Charmer | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...current trends hold, China's will be larger within a generation. And Japan is facing an unprecedented demographic contraction, with its population expected to nearly halve within the next century. So Japanese leaders know they must act?to remake their once miraculous economy so that it can perform new wonders, and to establish a prominence in international affairs that guarantees that the waking dragon to the west does not decide to push around its archipelagic neighbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standing Tall | 12/18/2005 | See Source »

...Klein is right. None of the blathering about being misled into war matters at all. What really counts is what would happen if we left Iraq before the new government was ready to take over all the duties we now perform. Would the Middle East situation worsen or not? Would the U.S. be seen as weak and thereby become more vulnerable to attack both at home and abroad? We must see our mission through in Iraq. And I say this as a father whose son will be entering the Army in 2007 and could go to Iraq before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/17/2005 | See Source »

...friend or friend of a friend who didn’t make it to summer vacation. And poor training ultimately ends up under-serving the students who we are trying to help. Recent research out of Stanford has found that students taught by corps members do not, on average, perform as well as students taught by fully-trained, certified teachers.Thus, while TFA is very good at portraying itself as “the elite” program for entering teaching, I would argue that there are far superior programs out there if you really want to be an elite teacher...

Author: By Henry Seton, | Title: Conditional Love | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

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