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...certain fields are of Jewish origins, and 10% of the arms deals around the world are done by Israelis? Why is my brother or sister in America a great poet or composer or physician whose achievements raise up all of humanity, and I who live here on my sword became a world expert on arms and swords? Is that really my mission, or is that an outcome of the black water with which I water my flowers? To make our contribution to humanity, we have to free ourselves of the obsession with the trauma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

...married father of three, Harris, 46, turned in his resignation Friday, the second Blagojevich aide to fall on his political sword so far. He did so on the same day that the state's attorney general asked the Illinois Supreme Court to consider invoking an obscure state law to temporarily remove Blagojevich from power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Blago Cause Trouble for Daley? | 12/13/2008 | See Source »

...Luxembourg has played a mostly figurehead role in his country, a sliver of a nation wedged between Germany, Belgium, and France. But an unfolding royal family drama - replete with a papal cameo - has forced the handsome 53-year-old Duke to fall on what remains of his political sword. (Read TIME's Top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luxembourg's Monarch Steps Back On Euthanasia Bill | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...that we owe such doctrines as original sin and predestination. Yet he has traditionally been unpopular with those concerned about Christian treatment of Jews over the centuries, a disapproval that was expressed eight years ago by the popular historian James Carroll in his much read book Constantine's Sword. Carroll wrote that Augustine and his followers believed that Jews "must be allowed to survive, but never to thrive" so that their public misery would broadcast their "proper punishments for their refusal to recognize the truth of the Church's claims." And the rest, goes the claim, was bloody history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was Saint Augustine Good for the Jews? | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

Majorski, Mario •folly of approaching an armed guard at Scientology Celebrity Centre while wielding a samurai sword in each hand is learned the hardest possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

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