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...Hare's big ideas aren't as revolutionary these days, but his liberal leanings persist. The heroes of his plays are the people left to clean up the messes made by those in power: "priests or policemen, social workers or teachers," he says. Where his earliest works urged the collapse of the capitalist system, his later works are less absolute, exploring "the necessary hypocrisies of public life." With the state of politics today, Hare won't be out of a job anytime soon. But, as he has discovered, sometimes audiences would rather focus on hope than hypocrisy. He frets that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Hare: Truth to Power | 1/14/2009 | See Source »

...their faith. "This is not about polygamy," declared Winston Blackmore in a press statement on Thursday after he and Oler had been conditionally released from jail. "Tens of thousands of polygamists among many different cultures are hiding in plain sight all across Canada. They are known by their neighbors, policemen, legislators and media just as we are ... But they are not fundamentalist Mormons. To us, this is about religious persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raiding the Polygamists: An Eldorado North of the Border | 1/9/2009 | See Source »

...entire U.S. Army and almost all the U.S. Marine Corps were stationed in Minnesota. "A drawdown would be good, as it would make the average Kashmiri feel at ease," says Zarief Ahmed, a retired government official now involved in social work. "When you have so many soldiers and policemen on all sides, it reminds you of the vulnerability you are caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can India and Pakistan Lower Tensions Over Kashmir? | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...second book and address the issues pertaining to women. So I put that idea on the back burner and just kind of let it simmer. I went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2003, and I met with people who worked for nongovernmental organizations, people who worked as policemen, women who were working as teachers, and I basically just listened to their stories. The purpose of the visit was to educate myself. I really wasn't thinking at all about researching a book. But I came home with this amazing repertoire of eyewitness accounts and stories that were vivid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khaled Hosseini | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...anything to avoid disaster," says Sisulu. "He will have to keep ruling through violence." And while he has proved all too willing to unleash his security forces on opposition supporters, at some point the economic collapse could begin to eat into the loyalty of rank-and-file soldiers and policemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Zimbabwe, Mugabe Clings On, But His Power Is Waning | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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