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...that, to be sure. The right to privacy after death in combat should trump all other concerns. There are other good reasons not to show the true face of war, especially when the photos in question are acts of aggression perpetrated by an enemy intent on damaging American morale. But the desire not to sicken or offend the noncombatant public should not be among them. There is real danger when journalists edit the truth, especially when we sanitize the cataclysmic impact of high-powered munitions upon human flesh. There are those who say such images might induce America to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The PG-Rated War | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...that, to be sure. The right to privacy after death in combat should trump all other concerns. There are other good reasons not to show the true face of war, especially when the photos in question are acts of aggression perpetrated by an enemy intent on damaging American morale. But the desire not to sicken or offend the noncombatant public should not be among them. There is real danger when journalists edit the truth, especially when we sanitize the cataclysmic impact of high-powered munitions upon human flesh. There are those who say such images might induce America to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The PG-Rated War | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

...Iraq is a crusade, then Bush, Bible safe in hand, is its knight in shining armor. The President’s trump card—faith-based initiatives—recasts the nation’s problems, economic and otherwise, as problems that can be fixed if only we say to each other, as he did in a speech last month in Tennessee, “God loves you, I love you, and you can count on us both...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: The Linguistics of War | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...bill allowed the council’s Campus Life Committee to manage a partnership with the office of University President Lawrence H. Summers for organizing Springfest and “to ensure that this partnership is of near equals and that one party is not allowed to trump the other...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Allocates Funds to Walkout | 3/10/2003 | See Source »

...Powell has warned against expecting any "smoking gun" evidence from his presentation. He may, of course, be diminishing expectations ahead of some unforeseen trump card. But taken at his word, he could sway the Council debate even without a smoking gun. Powell is on strongest ground where he is able to show that Iraq is actively - rather than simply by omission - failing to comply with the letter and spirit of Resolution 1441. Chief inspector Dr. Hans Blix has chastised the Iraqis for their "passive cooperation," insisting Baghdad had evaded some of the key challenges set out by the inspectors such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powell's Pitch: The Stakes | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

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