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When the people of East Timor decided 20 months ago to secede from Indonesia, the backlash was swift and horrendous. The Indonesian military, using local militia groups, spearheaded a three-week rampage of pillage and slaughter. The toll: 1,200 dead, wanton destruction of property and a population of survivors traumatized to this...
TIME 1995 Cover Package: COVER: When the Terror Comes From Within At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, a bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Its scenes of carnage unleashed fear, anger and sorrow across the nation - as well as an astonishingly swift quest for the suspected perpetrators of the slaughter. America had already learned to expect terror from beyond its borders. Now the country must deal with another reality: the monsters it has bred...
Even among my relatively liberal group of friends, I’ve been surprised by the amount of antipathy there is towards the acting governor. I was shocked to hear one (very liberal, male) friend tell me he resented that Swift hadn’t known better than to postpone her pregnancies until a time when she had fewer responsibilities. Another (female) friend, told me she thought that Swift was giving working women a bad name...
We’re lucky, in a sense, for the bizarre series of events that brought Jane Swift, and all her challenges, to the spotlight. Swift is doing a big service to society by taking on the responsibilities of governing a state and having children. Her efforts will illustrate that it is not impossible to reconcile politics, and work in general, with raising a family...
...Swift doesn’t deserve the flak she’s getting. Young voters—and college students in particular—should support Swift, in the hope that her experience will convince other young, family-minded politicos to enter politics. Our system will be much better...