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...Wisconsin. (He also tried downhill but says, "Why would you want to go through that? I could slam into a tree and just die!") Though he wasn't much good, he thought he could do well enough to cause a stir. Then he could attempt a noble bait-and-switch, getting Cameroon's television or radio stations to give him air time to tell about his Olympic experiences and using that platform to talk to his countrymen about AIDS. Maybe they would listen to one of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Isaac Menyoli: Man On a Mission | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...order to foster academic freedom—in order to allow professors to publish (as West has done in the past) bold and original scholarship without worrying whether it will be immediately accepted. The system was not created so that professors with tenure would have free license to effectively switch careers and produce things other than scholarship, be they music, drawings or lawn-chairs. West’s job—the one that Harvard hired him for and pays him a large salary to perform—is to write scholarly books and articles, not to make music. Further...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, | Title: The Rap on West | 1/30/2002 | See Source »

...curmudgeon, his poetry still warms people’s hearts across the country. West, unfortunately, does not have this luxury—it is his responsibility to prove that he can consistently live by his recommendations as zealously as he advocates them. Otherwise, he should perhaps consider a career-switch and try his hand in the art world. But wait—he already...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, | Title: The Rap on West | 1/30/2002 | See Source »

...instruction manuals, Seth Tobacman's "Not Enough People Have Died," takes the logic of punishing everyone who's ever given money to terrorists ("Let's start with Ronald Reagan," he writes) to its absurd extreme - eliminate everyone who's ever bought a tank of gas or used a light switch. Other contributions by the likes of Tom Tomorrow, Sue Coe and Spain Rodriguez give form to topics ignored by the other 9/11 books such as the curtailing of freedoms and the geo-political history of the United State's involvement in Afghanistan. Some of it may be overstated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Serious Comix Ever | 1/29/2002 | See Source »

...case," and pharmacies, particularly in New York, Washington and Florida, couldn't keep up. Other antibiotics, including doxycycline and that old standby penicillin, are just as effective against the particular strain that was showing up in tainted letters, and a few weeks later, when the cdc recommended that doctors switch to those, Cipro's days in the spotlight were over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our A To Z Guide To Advances In Medicine | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

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