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...class morning favorite “Today.” There she was, prancing in hot pants before families at the breakfast table or clustered around their televisions during prime time. A few hard-line Christian groups were unhappy, but there were no high-profile grumblings or media watchdog temper tantrums. Just acceptance...
...diplomats doubt that negotiations over verification will be nettlesome. For months South Korea's envoys have been warning that this next step could be a deal killer. That's why the reaction to Pyongyang's latest temper tantrum has been measured. The nuclear program is the North's only real source of leverage with the outside world, and so they're using it again. Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for Bush's National Security Council, said the North's actions were "very disappointing" and urged Pyongyang to "reconsider these steps...
...McCain: Temper of the Times Although I am troubled by the refusal of Senator John McCain to answer many of the questions asked of him, the emphasis TIME placed on that aspect rather than on his answers on the issues is another example of the media's liberal bias [Sept. 8]. I was disappointed that the vast majority of your interview with McCain was devoted to his "prickly" attitude, when the full version of the interview on TIME.com had much more substance. Alanna Rice, Council Bluffs, Iowa...
...books, because they are topical artifacts of a vanished epoch, will probably be relegated to what Trotsky dubbed “the dustbin of history.” The standard by which he will ultimately be judged is his character and political commitment. Thus it is critical that we temper our paeans to this hero of the gulag with a sober analysis of his legacy both as an advocate and as a human being. There is no doubt that Solzhenitsyn’s novels played a dramatic role in disabusing the left of its residual romanticism for the Bolsheviks...
...McCain: Temper of the Times...