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...think the current race is the best, most riveting election campaign I have witnessed as an adult. I'm 56. Never before have I seen a primary campaign come down to the wire like this year's Democratic contest. Sure, hard-fought contests are bruising for all concerned, but I believe America will be better off next January, when the new President takes office, because of the election fights that took place this year. Now if only we could shorten the campaign season. Dave Peterson, Tucson, Arizona...
...primacy of the generals. At a time when Burma's rice growing regions - which once made it the world's top rice producer - have been devastated leaving its people starving for the staple, the junta seems determined to remain the world's number one producer and consumer of barbed wire - literally and figuratively. The people are cowed. They utilize hushed tones when speaking to foreigners, take furtive glances over their shoulders, all part of the fearful obedience that keeps them calibrated to the crackdown they know to expect if they step out of line...
...terms of popular culture, the year 2008 has been very good to the ’hood. With the recent run of popular HBO show “The Wire,” the drama of the American inner-city has earned critical street cred: everyone is talking about it. The recently released “Cop in the Hood” capitalizes on this spike in interest about the worst drug markets of Baltimore, Md., as it brings a sociologist’s eye to the situation that captivated the interest of millions nationwide...
...agonizing. (The rebels finally hacked off the toes of the boots with machetes to lessen the pain.) Pinchao says the men trekked for days until they reached a FARC camp in the Sierra de la Macarena, where they were initially penned together in a slung cage whose low, barbed-wire ceiling prevented them from standing up. "Despite being held together like that, [FARC guards] forbade them from talking to each other," Pinchao said in a recent deposition obtained by TIME...
...Rabbi Pollock was cautious, of course - likening an ancient religion to children's fiction may not be particularly prudent in a country that is home to more holy sites and razor wire than anywhere on earth...