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America's leader during these crises, John F. Kennedy, was a firm cold warrior, but his youthful idealism and energy made a strong impression on the generation just coming of age, particularly on March 1, 1961, when he founded the Peace Corps, which sent thousands of young people to Third World countries to share American know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decade That Shook It All Up | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Providing polio and measles immunizations to children in Third World countries are among the organization’s recent efforts...

Author: By Nura A. Hossainzadeh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UNICEF Director Urges Unity | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...against what they allege are a host of racial double standards." In short, that affirmative action has made whites the most discriminated-against group in the country and that it can only get worse as a tide of immigrants transforms the U.S. from a white nation into a rickety Third World republic. The language white nationalists use to promote their insights is stunningly familiar to anyone who has listened to black nationalists like Louis Farrakhan - but that's not surprising, since the white nationalists appropriated it. As Swain observes, "the multicultural left has provided a language that works very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whites and the Next Racial Clash in America | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

(3 of 3) Still, the emotional attachment to free roads cannot be underestimated. Tony Vickers of the Association of British Drivers sees the rights of man at stake. "The truth is, it's not cars that people love. It's their freedom of mobility. I wouldn't give up my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cars That ate London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Athens .. | 2/16/2003 | See Source »

...real admiration. If he is painting a tragic subject, like a martyrdom, he is sharing the grief." He points to Titian's last picture, the Pietà of 1576: in a shadowy niche Mary struggles to support her son's dead body. Painted during the plague that destroyed a third of Venice's population of around 175,000, the work was an attempt to "influence God, to plead with him." The aged Titian succumbed, leaving the picture unfinished. Titian's reputation was bolstered by good public relations. Writer Pietro Aretino, whose volumes of flattering and waspish letters ensured a wary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Embarrassment of Riches | 2/16/2003 | See Source »

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