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...sad to watch a man who was such a subtle and sophisticated foreign policy President dance around-and inadvertently acknowledge-the phenomenal disaster created by his son. But the old man has a point: Junior is about to be deluged with advice about Iraq, and most of it will be worthless. There will be calls for regional diplomatic conferences and partition plans and new Iraqi power-sharing deals, plans to increase and plans to diminish the level of U.S. troops or to deploy them differently. Expert advocates will brilliantly argue all these possibilities, but each will have a fatal flaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inadvertent Wisdom from George H.W. Bush | 11/25/2006 | See Source »

...overbearing but yet rather theatrically conventional nonconformity. And although his end proves a point that Bennett keeps making - that history is largely determined by accident and is not as subject to rational explanations as those who write it like to pretend - there is something unearned about Hector's sad fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The History Boys Makes the Grade | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...warmer temperatures. “The past two weeks have been amazing,” says Pham. “Usually, by this time, I would be wearing a winter jacket, but I’m still enjoying a chance to wear fall clothes.” Pham sad she believes that the lengthening of warm weather “is probably a result of global warming.” Butler Professor of Environmental Studies Michael B. McElroy, however, said he cautions against “drawing grand conclusions.” “If temperatures are still this...

Author: By Nan Ni, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mild Weather Warms Weekend | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...parents lamented the loss of the ring because it was a valuable symbol of their connection to one another. I am sure they were sad about the loss of the money, but (according to what they tell me at least) it was the ring itself they missed. And my mom was so sad about it that she chose not to replace it with another diamond. She wanted a ruby instead. But I think my dad regrets not replacing the diamond. He always says that the ruby does not say "my wife is married and off the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debating the Desire for a Diamond | 11/20/2006 | See Source »

...this universe. At the denouement of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play “Rabbit Hole,” the bereaved mother at the center of the play finds unexpected comfort in the concept of alternative realities, that perhaps “this is just the sad version of us.”Audience members may also find comfort in the idea that this production is just a mediocre version of the show, and that in some happier universe, lazy direction and one-note acting are not distorting what is actually a very good play.The Huntington Theatre Company...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Huntington’s ‘Rabbit Hole’ Might be Better in An Alternative Universe | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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