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...recent editorial, the Washington Post warned that Bush should not sacrifice his democracy agenda in the Middle East. And indeed it would be perilous to abandon our ideals for the sake of short-term security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NATO for the Middle East | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...would have a hard time differentiating between a responsible parent who thinks about parenting and then hits and one that does not," Lieber said. "Responsible parents have to give up the privilege to physically discipline their children for the sake of protecting children that aren't being hit once in a blue moon or in a light way, but are really being hit day after day, many times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Spanking Be Banned? | 1/24/2007 | See Source »

...sexually molested--by a police sergeant, no less. You drag him into a case that spreads details of a humiliating attack all over the public record, a record accessible online in court databases available to millions of readers. You say the attack wasn't your fault, for Pete's sake, so why should you put your name on the lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Forced into the Spotlight | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

...final analysis, despite the differences we have on the domestic agenda and the kind of society we want for America, we hope that Evangelicals will continue to support Israel for Israel's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jews and Evangelicals: Support for Israel Isn't Everything | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

...what if-just for argument's sake-you got insanely rigorous about it. You went to all the big-name authors in the world-Franzen, Mailer, Wallace, Wolfe, Chabon, Lethem, King, 125 of them- and got each one to cough up a top-10 list of the greatest books of all time. We're talking ultimate-fighting-style here: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, modern, ancient, everything's fair game except eye-gouging and fish-hooking. Then you printed and collated all the lists, crunched the numbers together, and used them to create a definitive all-time Top Top 10 list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time | 1/15/2007 | See Source »

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