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...trickled into Vietnam with no knowledge of the country or its culture. Worse, we were oblivious to its people. Lean, sinewy figures in rubber sandals, black cotton pajamas and conic basket hats, we dismissed them as "primitive." But they were a highly sophisticated folk whose civilization dated back millenniums. Over those centuries they recurrently resisted foreign invaders, particularly their predatory Chinese neighbors. That tumultuous history ingrained in them an intensely nationalistic spirit illustrated by their willingness to give their lives for their cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Inside the Machine | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...their howling, Democrats are wrong if they think this commission is just going to rubber-stamp the president's position. Why? Because the president doesn't have much of a position. Much like the wispy specifics in his National Missile Defense plan yesterday, Bush has artfully ducked the tough questions about just how the privatization is going to work. His job is to set the priorities, he says. Let other people work out the hard stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Bush's Social Security Panel Could Be the Real Deal | 5/2/2001 | See Source »

Barrett is underwhelmed by today's New Age celebrities. Dr. Andrew Weil, for example, is "very slick but makes glaring errors and hardly ever admits anything is quackery. I call him a 'rubber ducky.'" Deepak Chopra he dismisses as a purveyor of "Ayurvedic mumbo jumbo." (Chopra, for his part, calls Barrett "a self-appointed vigilante for the suppression of curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Loves To Bust Quacks | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...Crimson can do that, it will earn a rubber match in its season series with Cornell, which is currently tied...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Travels to NH for Crucial Ivy Games | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...date b) a Bible c) foam-rubber fingers d) Jujubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Apr. 23, 2001 | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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