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...image shown on the cover, of the New Orleans Garden District aflame, reminded me of a Currier & Ives lithograph. Despite my dislike for the war in Iraq, especially for all the dissembling by politicians that got us into it, I couldn't help feeling a twinge of patriotic pride upon seeing the photo of an Iraqi woman voting. ALEXANDER WELLS Los Angeles...
...didn't know how much people hated television. This may be because whenever I walk into anyone's house, they leave the TV on the entire time we're talking. That may, upon reflection, be a subtle hint I'm not catching. Still, I got some sense of how much they hated it when I left TIME to write for a sitcom. People thought I was selling out or too lazy for journalism or, like all good Americans, desperate to meet Ryan Seacrest...
...during drills and hoped that we wouldn't be bombed," she says. "The Spy Museum brought that time in my life back to me in full, living color." Visitors can live out their Mission: Impossible fantasies by selecting an undercover persona-complete with false name, age and other traits-upon entering the museum. Before they exit, an interactive display tests them on how well they remember the details of their new identity...
...chaos" in the free marketplace of ideas and does not recognize the myriad possibilities of positive creativity. Singaporeans are taught how to think and act in accord with the dictates of the system. Now Singaporeans are being told to be creative. So even the creative spirit is being forced upon society by the system instead of being allowed to happen naturally. I hope the government does not wait too long to loosen up, or it will spell its own demise as we move into an age in which creativity is the key to staying ahead. Rionita Amir Bandung, Indonesia...
...never loses sight of individual action and power. And navigating both sides of the shadow lines within him, Ghosh travels to some of the most difficult places on earth to bring their voices back to those in places of seeming comfort. Musing on Sri Lanka, he draws upon the words of Michael Ondaatje, not a colonizer surveying foreign ground, but a homesick exile looking back on the world he misses. Reading to a New York audience soon after Sept. 11, he shares the work of Agha Shahid Ali, a Kashmiri poet who has lived with civil war and terror...