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...years on "Coach," spending the long pilot hour barking, bloviating, singing(!) and generally chewing the scenery. ?No, YOU hold on!," he screams at an incompetent police underling, one of several shiftless African Americans depicted in a cornball, overwritten drama with truly creepy racial politics. "Can you tell me WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS CITY!?!? Um, how about an uninspiring lead using volume as a substitute for acting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV Preview | 10/11/2006 | See Source »

...three bodies to more formally endorse the College’s general policy of leniency. This need not mean a public declaration of intent to disregard federal laws—that would clearly be stupid—but rather internal communication that ensures consistency. As counselors like to tell us, “A problem shared is a problem halved” (or in this case, trisected): The College needs to arrange a good, long talk between its three drugs-related bodies. It should be possible, after all, to apply more consistently the sensible attitudes displayed by individuals in these...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: Drug Policy? What Are You, High? | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...could solve the Palestinian issue by creating a Marshall Plan for Palestine. It would tell the hatemongers of the Muslim world that the U.S. doesn't exclusively support Israel. If the Palestinians in refugee camps knew that they had a future as something other than suicide bombers, they would grab the chance. It surely wouldn't be difficult to get the European Union, OPEC and the U.N. to help pay the tab. Ronald W. Birmingham Suffield, Connecticut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...many disabled shoppers there were at the time, but the number was surely in the millions, and that meant lots of cash going unspent. So the merchants widened their aisles, replaced their stairs with ramps, and displayed their goods in ways that allowed blind people like Sexton to tell what they were buying. But the economy's doors did not open wide for the disabled until 1992, when the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing the Target | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...allegations of immoral behavior are enough to keep most students toeing the I.J.T. line. There is no university regulation segregating men from women in the dining halls, but students know that mingling is taboo. "If I talk to a girl in line at the canteen, I.J.T. members will tell me to get my food and get out," says Rehan Iqbal, 25, an M.B.A. student, who is sitting on the floor of a hallway with female classmate Malka Ikran, 22. It's a nice autumn day, and a shady green lawn beckons through an open window, but they dare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle for Punjab U. | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

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