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It might be argued that former Vermont Governor Howard Dean also passed the Bennett test, but he only did so under duress. He was asked about a quote from 1996, in which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Remember The Democrats, Don't You? | 4/14/2003 | See Source »

"What shall I do? Order you to shoot?" As a crowd of 20,000 of his countrymen implored him to "Open the gate!" on that chaotic Thursday evening, Harald Jager, head of passport control at the Berlin Wall's Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint, kept shouting that rhetorical question at the guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nov. 9, 1989 | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

The conservative argument against the U.N. is similarly radical. It conforms, strangely, to the central assumption that the U.N. has failed as an agency of global governance. The Security Council is too structurally obtuse to make war, prevent war or even to enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Cheers for the Peacekeepers | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

The conservative argument against the U.N. is similarly radical. It conforms, strangely, to the central assumption that the U.N. has failed as an agency of global governance. The Security Council is too structurally obtuse to make war, prevent war or even to enforce its own resolutions. The paralysis of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Cheers for the Peacekeepers | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

It’s over my House list that I first read the open invitation from Andrew P. Winerman ’04 to join his newly formed “anti-tyranny” group for Liberals (with a capital “L”), as in those...

Author: By Madeleine S. Elfenbein, | Title: Fighting Words | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

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