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As the sun slides behind a verdant neem tree and the scorching heat of the late afternoon eases a few degrees, the last ferry pulls away from the bank of the River Gambia. Normally, the rusting blue barge would be packed with people and vehicles, while the road that runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A River Runs Through It | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

Recently, there has been a concerted effort by the NCAA to force schools with American Indian names or mascots to change their names. And earlier this month, a group of 90 university professors sent a letter to officials at several hundred universities, asking them not to schedule athletic events against...

Author: By Waste’win yellow lodge Young, | Title: A Name to Fight Against | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

History is replete with alienated minorities that successfully assimilated and did not bomb innocent people. The angry Muslims in Europe seem to have forgotten the West's benevolence during humanitarian missions to the Muslim populations in Somalia, Bosnia and Indonesia. The West can no longer pursue appeasement. It must challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 24, 2005 | 10/16/2005 | See Source »

From that moment forward, Thomas “believes,” thus endowing himself with the magical power to call on the King at a moment’s notice and defeat the giant birds, dragons, and other beasts Demurral places in his path. That this mixture of the...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taylor’s Book Unholy Mess | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

And whom does he pick? The right, at least the conservative intellectual right, didn't care about her heart as much as her other muscles, her constitutional brilliance, her persuasive powers, her ability to walk into all that marble and make some history. It had its sacred short list of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Two Knocks on Miers | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

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