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...wait. How did we win the cold war? We fought and won the cold war, and thus liberated tens of millions of people, precisely because we prudently, albeit reluctantly, tolerated unfreedom in certain places. Why? In order to win the larger battle for freedom on the global scale. Today we "coddle" Musharraf of Pakistan, Mubarak of Egypt, the Saudi princes. Yesterday we coddled Pinochet of Chile, Marcos of the Philippines, the Shah of Iran, Mobutu of Zaire and a train of South Vietnamese generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dictatorships and Double Standards | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...long that difficulty will last and what will have to be done to resolve it. Be prepared to provide financial details, including monthly income and expenses. The goal is to get the lender on your side, says mortgage lender James Nutter Jr. of Kansas City, Mo. "So do not wait for the lender to call you. If you call them, they will look upon that as you trying to not shirk your responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curing the Late-Payment Blues | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

Imagine an experiment in which a few hundred women with breast cancer are divided into two groups. Patients in one group have their tumors surgically removed, while those in the other wait patiently, keeping a close eye on the progress of their disease, and are treated only if their cancer starts to spread. Sound barbaric? Substitute prostate cancer for breast cancer, and that is pretty much what 700 Scandinavian men in the early stages of prostate cancer agreed to. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, showed that the men who underwent surgery were half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostate Cancer: Cut or Wait? | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...believe the government is changing the way they view me. But they still can't concede that I should be allowed to return. I think I will go back someday. I want to be the Billy Graham of China. And I don't think I'll have to wait too long. Maybe after I go back I can write another book: Return to China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pastor in Exile | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...wait, nevermind. He already owns those...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ladies' Dan: Truth Be Told, Harvard Is Morris’ Team | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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