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...countries like red China, yellow France, and multi-coloured Canada. They’ve been indulged by pinko leftist faculty, who spout drivel about “global citizenship” and “internationalism.” They are international students, and if this university is to reclaim its proper place atop American society, they must be purged without delay...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Blame Canada | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

...traditional military and political power. In fact, when economic power began to shift in the 1970s to a new bourgeoisie based in the cotton industry, some of the old landowning oligarchy even sided with the rowdy Sandinista rebels, hoping that the overthrow of the dictatorship would allow them to reclaim lost power. But the Sandinistas had other ideas: After seizing power in the insurrection of 1979, they systematically dismantled the power of the oligarchy in subsequent years. The coup de grace, Nunez says, came last year when the Sandinistas formed a political alliance with the Catholic Church, the oligarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Neighborhood | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...incurable disease chips away at my brain's control center. Stories like yours give all of us with Parkinson's hope. With the help of a charismatic personal trainer at my local ymca fitness center, I've learned to face up to this awesome disease by fighting back to reclaim my balance and range of motion. It's not easy, but it is satisfying when the hard work pays off. David H. Anderson, Sarasota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...form Monumental Pictures, which is producing Russian-language movies for the domestic market. Monumental's general director, Paul Heth, an American, built the first Western-style cinemas in Russia. He and his business partner, Shari Redstone, the daughter of Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, have watched Russian movies begin to reclaim their own territory. Hollywood films still rule Russian theaters, but a Russian movie has claimed the top spot at the national box office in each of the last three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reel Russia | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...ways the incurable disease chips away at my brain's control center. Stories like yours give all of us with Parkinson's hope. With the help of a charismatic personal trainer at my local ymca fitness center, I've learned to face this awesome disease by fighting back to reclaim my balance and range of motion. It's not easy, but it is satisfying when the hard work pays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox: Sep. 24, 2007 | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

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