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Which candidate is better equipped to deal with such threats? In attempting to draw a contrast with Kerry, Bush likes to say, "If America shows uncertainty or weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy." Yet both candidates have shifted course on many major foreign policy issues, ultimately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As The Election Nears, The Question Remains Who Will Make Us Safer? | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

One of the charges commonly levied against Cummings was that he did not develop as a poet. According to Sawyer-Lauçanno, this accusation springs from that fact that Cummings was “so good so early. For the rest of his life he continually refined early experiments...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Key To Cummings Bio | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

Stomach stapling and gastric bypass surgery clearly help people shed pounds, but according to a new report, the benefits go well beyond weight loss. A review of 130 studies involving 22,000 patients showed that for most there were also dramatic improvements with respect to diabetes, hypertension and blood cholesterol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Stitch in Time | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

One ad recently released by the Bush campaign is set somewhere in suburbia, featuring a mother jogging with a stroller and a father with his minivan; the voiceover, which sounds like it’s straight out of a scary movie, drones “History’s lesson...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Fear itself | 10/20/2004 | See Source »

Leland has a weakness for phrasemaking and surplus rhetoric but a real gift for connecting centuries-old developments in American life to the endlessly evolving postures we call "hip." In the sensual ecstasies of Walt Whitman and the individualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson he finds hip's literary underpinnings. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hip's History | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

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