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...pledge to accept nothing less than Germany's (and Japan's) unconditional surrender. The Russians fought on, but at horrendous cost. Stalin fulminated that Roosevelt was waging war with American money and American machines--and with Russian men. The accusation arose from anger and cynicism, but it had the sting of truth. For every American who gave his life in World War II, some 59 Soviets died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patient Warrior | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

BENEFITS Cicadas do not sting or bite, and they are not poisonous. The insects don't eat much, and healthy trees can actually benefit from the pruning that takes place when branches die from the hundreds of slits the females cut to lay eggs. On the ground, cicada exit holes aerate the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They're Baaack | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

Feaster also plays for the Charlotte Sting of the WNBA, and Peljto said she hopes that she will improve her game enough to have a better chance at joining Feaster...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Peljto To Join European League | 5/6/2004 | See Source »

Perhaps that’s why the list I gave them, which included the first names I could think of—John Zorn, the Icarus Line, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Vertical Horizon, Clara Schumann, Ice Cube, Alice Deejay, Keith Hudson, the Police and then Sting, among others—never once got dismissed as being insincere even though it made no “sense” whatsoever. Comments ranged from “Some okay, even pretty good stuff, utterly ruined by gay” to “I really hope you’re a lesbian, for your...

Author: By Ryan J. Kuo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Living for the Future | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

...another era--say, four years ago--a lefty network might have saved a little of its sting for the center-right of the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton got nearly as much flak from the disaffiliated left as from the entrenched right. But Air America's hosts, who range from centrist-left (Franken) to Pacifica pink (morning-drive-time japer Marc Maron), are forthrightly partisan. In their zeal to defeat Bush, they seek out strategic allies rather than ideological ones. Thus Randi Rhodes, the hectoring, cocksure afternoon-drive-time host, cuddled up to the right-wing Patrick Buchanan--who opposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Enter Talking, Stage Left | 4/12/2004 | See Source »

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