Word: stirring
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...stories we publish. A story in TIME might prompt a reader to fire off a letter to our editors, call a Congressman or, in the case of Paul LaBell, do something astonishing and profound. A New York City print publisher, LaBell makes his living surrounded by images meant to stir the emotions. But that didn't prepare him for photographer Michael Springer's picture of starving Sudanese in our Dec. 5, 1988, issue...
Three weeks after its release, Oliver Stone's film JFK continues to stir passions and debate, and to prompt calls for the release of secret government files on the Kennedy assassination. Last week the controversy drew a response from President Bush, who said while traveling in Australia that although he had not seen the movie, he had no reason to doubt the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. While no new evidence has emerged, the film has focused attention on the band of mostly self-appointed experts who zealously pursue theories...
...President, Clinton says, he would take much of what he has tried in Arkansas, add money and stir. He would reform welfare, education and health care, funding his programs with reduced defense spending and a 3% savings in administrative costs. He would increase taxes on those earning more than $200,000. He would apply to all corporate executives a variation of the rule devised by Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream: any income above 25 times what the lowest-paid worker in a company earns would be taxed at a higher rate...
...complex. Just ask the 50 million Americans who continue to do it despite abundant evidence that as a diversion its safety ranks somewhere between bungee jumping and Russian roulette. For the past decade, addiction researchers have struggled to sort through the tangle of biological urges and psychological cravings that stir people to light up, in an attempt to develop better ways to kick the habit. That effort is finally beginning to bear fruit...
...Such a strong statement of principle from Harvard would attract much press attention and stir debate on a national level. In addition to calling attention to the issue of homosexuals' civil rights, it would help win back some of the prestige that was eroded during the recent investigations into the University's admissions and research billing practices...