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...Klein talks about Bush's "intellectual laziness," which suggests Bush had the intellect, but was too lazy to use it. Why doesn't Klein call a spade a spade? Actually, the problem is that Bush didn't have the intellect in the first place; he is a stupid man, plain and simple. And America was stupid to elect him in the first place, and then stupid beyond belief to re-elect him in 2004. Without romanticizing Obama, it seems to me that he's intelligent; America has partly redeemed itself by electing him. Unfortunately for Obama, he has to sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detainees' Rights | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

WASHINGTON In Georgetown, customers find Kate Spade's Laurel Canyon bowl ($110) cheerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

...YORK CITY Color is key for SoHo hipsters who gravitate toward Kate Spade's laptop case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The A List | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...river. It was late afternoon, and the summer air had begun to turn to the evening’s coolness. The sun’s slanting rays caused the leaves and the white bark of the birches to shine. The Stable’s Boy’s spade, plunging horribly—endlessly!—into the fertile earth, was now inaudible. Roxanna, praying softly to herself, came over the top of a small hill and saw the river. No, not the river, although it was there. What she saw was a pale lump of flesh perched horribly...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 12 | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...pool of which a young stone maiden lay prostate at the feet of a scholarly hero, who held an open book aloft in one strong stone hand. Peace settled over Roxanna. And then, from the eastern corner of her garden, came the earthly, foreboding thunk of a steel spade violating the virgin earth. She lifted her skirts—which were, of course, of white muslin—and sprang toward the source of the offending sound. As she approached, the sound grew louder. The pitiful whisper of soil as it flew, displaced, grated her soul. The hoarse pants...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 11 | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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