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During World War II, Rumsfeld attended school in five cities in four different regions of the U.S. By age 14, he had held 16 part-time jobs, delivering newspapers and selling magazines in Illinois; raising chickens, watermelons and cantaloupes in North Carolina; chopping wood, delivering ice and digging razor clams in the Pacific Northwest; gardening and doing odd jobs in California. After high school he wrestled at Princeton and pinned down a degree in political science. And after a three-year stint as a Navy pilot, he became an investment banker in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Warlord | 4/14/2006 | See Source »

...Middle East and have a direct investment in democracy, however, see the value of the U.S.'s hard-fought quest to stabilize Iraq, defeat Islamic terrorism and bring liberty to oppressed peoples. Our Founding Fathers would be proud of the latter and disgusted by the former. Kelly Wood Bozeman, Montana, U.S. I have one question for George W. Bush & Co. Why did they choose Iraq and not Saudi Arabia - one of the worst offenders regarding human rights - as a location for implementing democracy in the Middle East? American troops have been stationed in Saudi Arabia since 1990, and I cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...leather couches line the walls below the brightly colored arched ceiling. Throw in the steady beat of minimal techno and house and a mixed-age crowd, and you've got one of central Berlin's hippest watering holes. Wuergeengel 122 Dresdener Strasse, wuergeengel.de A Kreuzberg institution, this old-fashioned, wood-paneled bar trumps the pretentious chic often found in new locations in the former East Berlin districts of Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. It's elegant drinking in a rough part of town. Green Door 50 Winterfeldtstrasse, greendoor.de Ring the bell on the aforementioned door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocktail College | 4/11/2006 | See Source »

...KELLY WOOD Bozeman, Mont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 17, 2006 | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...South Africa, the Tsitsikamma Forest?or "place of much water"?would have been their favorite bit (after his leopard-print underwear, of course). Stretching for 80 km along the Garden Route coastline is a verdant carpet of fynbos (Afrikaans for fine bush) and towering hard pear and Outeniqua yellow wood trees. It's also the perfect setting for those who like their outdoor experiences spiked with adrenaline: harnessed and helmeted nature lovers can whiz through the Tsitsikamma's treetops by strapping themselves onto a web of steel cables threaded through the forest canopy. Biologists studying the flora and fauna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Green Fun | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

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