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...government unconditionally. So nobody said anything when our pilots accidentally bombed and killed more than 3,000 innocent Afghan civilians. And nobody said anything when we aligned ourselves with war criminals like General Rashid Dostum—a ruthless warlord with a penchant for tying his prisoners to tank treads and making minced meat out of them. Criticizing our government at this time would have meant being unpatriotic, un-American. Bearing this in mind, it is easy to understand why the pro-Israel right is so sensitive about criticism leveled at its government...

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, | Title: Patriotism and its Discontents | 3/13/2002 | See Source »

...their U.S. jobs after the attacks. With workers like Guzman stuck at home, and Mexico in a recession provoked in part by the U.S. slowdown, Mexicans are hurting. In Puebla state, the town of Chinantla lives on cash sent back by migrants. One resident, Antonio Castellanos, is watching business tank at his burger-and-pizza stand. "If things don't change," says Castellanos, who learned his trade during eight years at a New York City pizzeria, "I'll have to go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatch From The Border: Slamming The Door | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...territories." Just "territories." As the U.S. ambassador who helped draft the resolution explained, the definite article was deliberately omitted. Why? To permit Israel to withdraw to defensible borders. The 1967 lines are inherently indefensible. They would make central Israel eight miles wide. Eight miles between, say, the massed tank armies of Iraq and Syria to Israel's front and the Mediterranean Sea to its back. This is suicide. Nor, contrary to Abdullah's formula, is Israel going to give up Judaism's holiest shrine (the Western Wall) and Old Jerusalem, continuously inhabited by Jews for centuries until expelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put It Back In The Drawer | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Freechai's male customers are a bit conservative, says Ryou, but women like to go wild, taking fashion dares they wouldn't risk on a real boulevard. So she takes ideas and jacks them up a bit for cyberspace. Explains Ryou, who dons baggy hip-hop pants, a red tank top and bright yellow hair when she logs on: "People want their avatars to be flashier than they are in real life. When we did swimwear, there were guys who would go around in trench coats with just their bathing suit on underneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-commerce | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...makes no distinction between a coffee cup and a 10,000 gallon tank of waste,” according to H. Joseph Griffin, director of environmental health and safety at Harvard. “They’re all held to the same standard...

Author: By Sarah L. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Scholars Question Waste Rules | 3/5/2002 | See Source »

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