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...looking like an American.'' (He's actually Canadian.) Guards are also important: several gunmen protecting Andrew fired back when his truck was ambushed in the Bakhara market earlier this year, enabling him to make a quick getaway. Andrew rides around Mogadishu in an old Toyota Land Cruiser with goatskin seat covers, Armed Forces Radio booming from the speakers, but that doesn't provide much relaxation. ''It took me months to figure out whether Somalis traditionally drive on the right or the left,'' he says. (It's the right.) ''With no traffic cops, anything goes.'' Swimming at the tempting beaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Andrew Purvis | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...Gloria Vanderbilt. Buckley admits that black history took place for her like news from another planet. The Supreme Court decision desegregating schools had less significance than a scene in Las Vegas featuring an infatuated Marlene Dietrich pursuing Frank Sinatra. The year Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, the teenage Gail was dancing at the Waldorf with Harry Belafonte. All along, Buckley chooses a policy of never apologize, never explain. She refuses to elaborate on a mysterious religious conversion that took place % before her divorce from Lumet and led, presumably, to this book. And there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DANCING PARTNERS OF CHIC THE HORNES: AN AMERICAN FAMILY by Gail Lumet Buckley; Knopf; 262 pages; $18.95 | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...appeal. This is as it should be, but it takes time. Rather than direct criticism toward what is perceived as a protective-guild mentality among doctors, turn the attack on those who are in control of the investigation. At the present time, the medical profession occupies the uncomfortable seat of being held responsible for all medical discipline without authority over the process. The state giveth the license, and only the state can taketh it away. Robert C. Coe, M.D., Chairman Medical Disciplinary Board State of Washington Seattle Though the medical profession may have been derelict in its housekeeping duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOCTOR'S DILEMMA | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Sure, times are tough for Republican incumbents all over the country, but you wouldn't want to be running Scott Garrett's congressional reelection campaign. Sure, he holds a seat in New Jersey's solidly Republican 5th district that has been GOP property for decades, and there are almost twice as many registered Republicans as Democrats in the affluent district. But who'd want to run for the party of an epically unpopular president when the opponent is a blind rabbi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rabbi in Congress? | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

...create another professorship. When Asani was offered tenure at the University of Bonn in Germany that year, Harvard fought to keep him, Eck said, by making him a professor of the practice in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and the Study of Religion. The seat is a senior position with five-year contracts...

Author: By Nini S. Moorhead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Asani Offered Tenure, But Considers Leaving Harvard | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

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