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...Haven't you something to say? Aren't you grateful? Aren't you pleased that you can now leave as a free person?'' I tried my best to control my anger. ''I can't accept your conclusion. I shall remain here in the No. 1 Detention House until a proper conclusion is reached about my case. A proper conclusion must include a declaration that I am innocent of any crime or political mistake, an apology for wrongful arrest and full rehabilitation. Furthermore, the apology must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life and Death in Shanghai | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...better her economic and social situation because her heavy cockney accent prevents her from being hired in a genteel flower shop. She’s doomed to remain a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” until a phoneticist sweeps in, fairy-godmother-like, to teach her a proper English accent...

Author: By Grace Tiao | Title: 900,000 Amelia Bedelias | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

...dare I say it—has become boring. Should the café receive all the credit? Who knows. But for some reason, library shenanigans—such as last spring’s impromptu 3 a.m. dance party—were blissfully absent from the library proper even during reading and finals period. The café has rewarded the social types with a haven and the worker bees with a respite from their hated disrupters...

Author: By Andrew D. Fine | Title: A Cuddly, Cozy (La)Monster | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

...America insist with good reason that nothing close to $30 million in Iranian arms profits was spent on military supplies or equipment. "The whole operation was held together with string," says William Wehrell, a pilot who flew supplies to the contras this year. "We couldn't even afford a proper navigational system to make sure that we dropped our loads to the right people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pursuing the Money Connections | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...case in point. A native of Jamaica, Scott, 37, applied for a visa at the U.S. consulate in Kingston to travel to Chicago to marry Saunders, 47. But a consular official decided Scott was marrying the older woman as a shortcut into the U.S. and refused to issue the proper papers. Only intervention by several Chicago dignitaries produced the visa. Says Scott: "I was treated like a criminal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tightening the Knot | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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