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Parsons is a consummate straddler of worlds and builder of consensus. Born in a working-class Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood, he rose to become a lawyer, a bank CEO and a moderate Rockefeller Republican. He describes himself as a "lunch-pail guy"--albeit one who owns a vineyard in Tuscany and who celebrated his promotion with a Cohiba Esplendido cigar and a $400 bottle of 1963 Taylor port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Nice Guy Run This Thing? | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...America from Nazi Germany at the outbreak of World War II but then decided to return to his country to join the Resistance. He participated in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, and was caught, jailed and hanged. Bonhoeffer addressed this question of knowing with the example of a rose. He said that science allows us to grasp nearly everything about the composition of a rose because we have learned so much about pollination, photosynthesis and so forth. And yet, he said, once we have done all that analysis, we still ask, What is a rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God Is Not On My Side. Or Yours | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...foreign policy - it represents an archaic Cold War standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Current relations between the U.S. and Russia are, in the administration?s words, characterized by a "hope of greater prosperity and peace." The President said as much at a formal declaration in the Rose Garden: "I have concluded the ABM treaty hinders our government's ability to develop ways to protect our people from future terrorist or rogue-state missile attacks." Thursday?s announcement means the U.S. will be free of the treaty in six month?s time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Drops a Bomb on the ABM Treaty | 12/13/2001 | See Source »

...encyclopedic format, Robbins chooses instead to work chronologically, with each chapter equaling approximately one decade. As such, it becomes a kind of social anthropology of women's societal roles as reflected through the comics. Chapter one, covering the turn of the century to 1920, profiles the work of Rose O'Neill and Grace Drayton, both of whom specialized in drawing cherubic, adorable children getting into cute, domestic scrapes. Drayton's pioneering style lives on today in the form of the Campbell's soup kids, whom she created almost 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Consciousness Raising | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

...Georgia Dome for the Southeastern Conference title last Saturday, every college football aficionado had his eyes on Atlanta. The Vols-Tigers rematch—the only major conference game of the weekend—was supposed to finally determine Miami’s opponent in the Rose Bowl...

Author: By Lande A. Spottswood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Promised Lande: Sorting the BCS Mess | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

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