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...than politics as usual. Many Europeans, for example, thought Americans were being unsophisticated, moralistic and, above all, naive to force a President to resign over what looked to them like a minor matter. The scandal now rocking Washington?involving as it does seemingly hypocritical diplomacy, arms deals and the secret funding of a guerrilla army?is much more comprehensible to the rest of the world, even if some of its features seem as bizarre in Perugia as they do in Peoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Strong Aftershocks | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...session, scheduled for January. Though Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, announced only "limited" progress, he found the Soviets ready to do business as usual. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger traveled to Brussels to attend a meeting of his NATO counterparts and turned up in Paris to defend Reagan's secret dealings with Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Strong Aftershocks | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Shields played a child prostitute in Pretty Baby, and in 1997, around a remake of Lolita. "The controversy comes from a societal terror that we have," Hounddog's writer-director Deborah Kampmeier said after the premiere. "A lot of people think we're gonna die if we tell this secret." The secret to which Kampmeier refers is that of sexual abuse of children. At the screening, representatives of the Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN) took the stage and delivered the statistic that in the time it took the audience to watch the film, eight children under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanning Controversy | 1/24/2007 | See Source »

Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said he had ordered 1,600 copies of “Palestine” for the store. The hundreds of people hoping to see Carter had to show the book to Coop employees and Secret Service agents on their on their way up two flights of stairs...

Author: By Rachel L. Pollack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Carter's Square Appearance Draws Supportive Crowd | 1/23/2007 | See Source »

...fine points of this week's news, like whether it was in questionable taste for the New York Times, in its story about the inadvertent decapitation, by noose, of Saddam Hussein's half brother, to refer to that poor ex-evildoer as the "former head" of Hussein's secret police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head Colds and Iraqi Cures | 1/20/2007 | See Source »

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