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...Committed to Reform Your story "A Paradise Divided" [dec. 8] fails to portray an accurate account of the situation and events in the Maldives, notwithstanding the fact that your correspondent undertook a lengthy interview with His Excellency President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The assertion that the riots in Malé did not appear to "disturb Gayoom's reverie" is highly partial-particularly given the fact that immediately after they happened, he appeared on national television talking about them, and visited the relatives of the prisoner who died. What's more, the gibe about a presidential yacht is a cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...Dean is the nominee, Republicans will inevitably portray him as a tax-raising, soft-on-terror liberal with a chip on his shoulder and no substantial alternatives to what Bush is doing. Dean intends to help remedy his where's-the-beef problem and sketch out his vision for the country with two major speeches this week. In a foreign-policy address on Monday in Los Angeles, he will call for "a new global alliance to defeat terror" and advocate a tenfold increase in funds spent on finding and eliminating unguarded nuclear, chemical and biological materials left over from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Thanks, Al. I'll Take It From Here | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...hypocrisy. My problem is that Rush is wrong twice, swinging all the way from punitive to forgiving. Drug use is incredibly nuanced and confusing--even alcohol required two constitutional amendments and a fight between "Tastes great" and "Less filling" that has never been adequately settled. Limbaugh used to portray all drugs as equal, whether they were painkillers or marijuana or heroin--which is not only stupid but also a really poor business plan if you're considering becoming a dealer. I had never tried marijuana until a friend left me some lovely brownies a few years ago, and not once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushing To Judgment | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

From Yeats’ 1916 collection Easter Rising, through his Meditations in Time of Civil War and beyond, his poems portray political events that “happened right on his doorstep,” according to Vendler. “His house was fired into. A bullet narrowly missed his wife...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yeats Biographer, Vendler Reassess Yeats’ Life, Works | 12/12/2003 | See Source »

...hypocrisy. My problem is that Rush is wrong twice, swinging all the way from punitive to forgiving. Drug use is incredibly nuanced and confusing - even alcohol required two constitutional amendments and a fight between "Tastes great" and "Less filling" that has never been adequately settled. Limbaugh used to portray all drugs as equal, whether they were painkillers or marijuana or heroin - which is not only stupid but also a really poor business plan if you're considering becoming a dealer. I had never tried marijuana until a friend left me some lovely brownies a few years ago, and not once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rushing To Judgment | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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