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...Beck is inquisitive and interesting. His broadcasts offer his opinion, and I choose whether to investigate his ideas or not. He doesn't regurgitate the morning news. Bill Maher's gibes are too personally directed, while Beck is adorable, even when I disagree with him. Is profitability not a concern for TIME, Newsweek or Oprah? Politicians clearly despise middle-class Americans who dare to question them. Should we trust Washington more? Please recognize the real story of Beck's fans: we're everyday working people concerned about the future of our country, and we don't like censorship. Melissa Odom...
...generals' fear of invasion is real and has been constantly stoked by Western actions and rhetoric. During pro-democracy protests in 1988, the U.S. deployed a naval taskforce off Burma's coast and later lumped the country with Iran and North Korea as an "outpost of tyranny." Whether real or perceived, Western hostility has prompted the junta to take two concrete actions: building one of Asia's largest standing armies, and seeking closer links with China and Russia, both permanent members of the U.N. Security Council...
...will leave it to another day to consider whether such an exercise would be a sensible way for a new Prime Minister with ambitious goals to spend his time. The bigger question is what Cameron thinks Britain gains from being such a pain to its European colleagues. One consequence is already plain: as TIME noted last week, in Paris and Berlin there is new energy behind Franco-German cooperation, and you can bet your bottom dollar that is partly because Merkel and Sarkozy have taken a look at Cameron, remembered the havoc Thatcher caused in the 1980s and thought...
...Whether Letterman rises or falls, he is guaranteed his own chapter in the Holy Book of Partisan Grievance, that august tome through which, with every new controversy, culture warriors feverishly flip for examples of the other side's hypocrisy. You wanted Imus fired for what he said! Well, you defended Limbaugh for his drug use! What about Bill Clinton! What about Newt Gingrich! Dan Rather! Mel Gibson! On and on, back through time, like warring ethnic clans tracing the righteousness of their spite to payback for the reprisal for an atrocity in the 13th century...
...later years, Sosa went beyond her role as a musician to serve as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. But the South American troubadour (below, with Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner) never thought of herself as an activist. "All of us," she once said, "whether we are artists or military, must collaborate if we are to keep democracy on its feet and walking...