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...Laffer Curve, drawn on a cocktail napkin. It may be nonsense, but at least it's clever nonsense (as Tom Stoppard once put it--though not about supply-side economics). Starve the beast, by contrast, is not a theory or even an assertion. It is barely more than a wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Beast of an Idea | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...It’s something I wish they had the opportunity to experience more...

Author: By John R. Hein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Plays to Empty House | 1/7/2004 | See Source »

...rest, they are content to leave America out there twisting in the wind. They do not wish us destroyed - they are not crazy - but they are not unhappy to see us distracted, diminished and occasionally defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farewell to Allies | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

...easily these days. In the case of mild disorders, cognitive or behavioral therapy is the appropriate treatment. People need to stop depending on medications to fix all their problems. It is scary to consider the effects that drugs are having on kids and their developing brains. I wish doctors would consider the factors that were raised in your article before they whip out their prescription pads. Kelly Ross Alma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/5/2004 | See Source »

Like there's no chance that the secular state of Iraq and Islamic fundamentalists cohabitate? They both think we're Satan. How about that as a nice point of departure for them car-pooling? I wish there was a country called alQaedia that we could have invaded, but there wasn't. [Saddam was] the only one who had a home address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Dennis Miller | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

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