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...someone or some idea. He's that way even when there's not much to fight about. Literal to a fault, Rumsfeld can spend a morning tangling over the interpretation of a poorly chosen word. He goes through periods when he takes on even friendly Senators and Representatives for sport. Devoted to trifocals, he seems to prefer to see things in conflict. You sometimes get the sense that Rumsfeld needs to fight to survive, the way sharks need to swim...
...TIME, include searing images of the Iraq war. All the emotions get played out for the camera during wartime, from the terrified child with his hands up, to the exuberant soldier swooshing down a palace banister in Tikrit. Other imponderables--feats of nature like Hurricane Isabel, feats of sport like Lance Armstrong's fifth win--are wrestled to the page too. In one photo, Texans look warily at a globe-shaped piece of debris that fell from the Columbia. All anyone could do was stare and puzzle and grieve. In 2003 the battered world crashed again and again into...
...Ford and High Fashion In "Bowing Out," TIME reported on the departure of pre-eminent fashion designer Tom Ford and his business partner from the Gucci Group [Nov. 17]. But if Ford is looking for new challenges, the makers of America's big, dark, ugly, gas-guzzling luxury sport-utility vehicles might offer him just the one. Tom Ford would be the perfect choice to redesign the suv line for Ford Motor Co. Carole Wade Los Angeles...
...last year when I was moving out of DeWolfe summer housing.” This _________ (totally excessive sympathetic adjective), life-altering loss of hobby hasn’t slowed down this _________ (concentration with poor advising and poor tutorial system) concentrator—he is the captain of his intramural _________ (sport) team, he works in _________ (name of campus library) and still has time to socialize with friends. Indeed, Nichols is really putting his stamp on Harvard...
Then there was the summer spent researching the changing role of women in bullfighting in southern Spain. “Machetes and Maoists aside, this was the biggest challenge I’ve had,” Truszkowska says. She was attracted to the sport for complex reasons, saying quickly that “I don’t support the killing of animals, but it was something I swallowed because I appreciated the beauty and dance of the sport.” Living off a Harvard research grant, Truszkowska ended up amassing some 60 interviews, as well...