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...Talk to a Bush supporter, and you hear giddy things. Talk to a Bush skeptic, and you hear the end of human life as we know it. In Washington last week, almost all the scenarios were extreme. "If you tear up all the rules and toss them in the air," said Ashton Carter, a Defense official in the Clinton Administration, now agonizing at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, "the results can be really good or really bad - but they're definitely going to be really different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Poker Player in Chief | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...Quincy, you throw out your own napkin and toss your own silverware into a bucket o’ water to soak...

Author: By Stephanie E. Butler and Lauren R. Dorgan, S | Title: Quincy, The People's House | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...term is used brainlessly, evil is still there--a mystery, a black hole into which reason and sunshine vanish but nonetheless ... there. Talk to the children with chopped-off hands in Sierra Leone. It is as fatuous to deny the existence of evil as it is to toss the word around irresponsibly. The children of the Enlightenment sometimes have an inadequate understanding of the possibilities of the Endarkenment. The question is how evil exists, how it works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Meaning of Evil | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...term is used brainlessly, evil is still there - a mystery, a black hole into which reason and sunshine vanish but nonetheless ... there. Talk to the children with chopped-off hands in Sierra Leone. It is as fatuous to deny the existence of evil as it is to toss the word around irresponsibly. The children of the Enlightenment sometimes have an inadequate understanding of the possibilities of the Endarkenment. The question is how evil exists, how it works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Meaning of Evil | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

...it’s not hidden in the back but embraced right where you come through the door. And as she goes on—over the din of laughing and clicking and conversation—we can actually hear the scampi sizzle on the grill, see the chef toss the branzino in a pan. And we are so tempted to order everything our waitress just described...

Author: By Brian M. Goldsmith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Fusilli Valentine | 2/13/2003 | See Source »

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