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...Iraq, and they are doing it now on Social Security." (As for voters, they don't seem to know what to make of the real situation: in the TIME poll, 45% agreed with Bush that the system faces a "crisis"; 44% said the claim was just a "scare tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Really A Crisis? | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...Dirty War can be didactic and self-congratulatory, it also smartly balances a thriller's plotting with an astute eye for politics and bureaucratic idiocy. Whether you consider it a gripping, worthy scare or titillating scaremongering may depend on whether you think it is a fair warning or a grim preview reel of inevitable coming attractions. For the sake of all of us, if not of the movie, let's hope it's the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Trouble Is On the Air | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

Roger M. Milgrim, a New York intellectual property attorney and the author of Milgrim on Trade Secrets, said that Apple might be trying to scare off other sites from copying Think Secret’s tactics...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Apple Sues Student | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

...another priority. Previous disasters have demonstrated that kids are targets for gangs involved in human trafficking, which thrives in parts of the region. The issue was thrown into stark relief following reports that a missing 12-year-old Swedish boy, Kristian Walker, may have been abducted in Thailand. The scare turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, but the possibility that kids could be picked off by traffickers remains a pressing concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children: Orphaned by the Ocean | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...What should scare everyone is Krauthammer's glib assurance of the rightness of Bush's mission to spread democracy in the Middle East and, presumably, everywhere else. When you've grown up with the idea that Western democracy is divinely favored, that confidence comes easily. When you haven't, and someone tries to change the way you do things, you may feel you're just being bullied. The result will be more terrorists, not fewer. And other Americans like Krauthammer will scratch their heads and wonder, Why do they hate us? Robert Coulter Gimli, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/18/2004 | See Source »

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