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At home now, amid the jumble of toys and papers strewn about their comfortable town house, Xue Donghua and Andrew are inseparable. "He used to be a very open child," the father says, "but now he is very sensitive?he won't leave me." A pile of newspapers, recording his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Taking of Andrew's Mother | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...another unconstitutional ornament we could put on this tree," McConnell says. "I was trying to get as many problems into the bill I could, so that if we ended up in court, we had a target-rich environment." He went to colleagues and said, "This is grotesquely unconstitutional. Please vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Day or a False Dawn? | 3/31/2001 | See Source »

The fact remains there is no way to curb greenhouse gas output without changing current patterns of corporate and even individual behavior. And no U.S. leader has yet been willing to confront the American people with that uncomfortable reality. Which means that Chancellor Schroeder may have been wasting his breath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush Bailed on Global Warming Pact | 3/29/2001 | See Source »

Sometimes a villain can be attractive. The mail carrier in Postman reads the letters he is to deliver: the whispers of love, lust, fear in a closed society; loneliness begging for another voice to answer, in harmony or dissonance. The voice is the postman's, once he takes the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bright Lights | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Pleas by the United Nations to save the giant Buddhas were ignored by the Taliban. So were offers made by India and the Metropolitan Museum in New York to buy the statues and have them removed, chunk by chunk, to safety. The Taliban vowed to press ahead with the demolition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1) No Television
2) No Statues | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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