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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Officials denounced Thursday's attack with strong language. "Whoever the coward was that committed this disgraceful act on our city will be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law," New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters at a press conference Thursday morning. "We will not tolerate such attacks." Army Captain Charles Jaquillard, commander of recruiting in Manhattan, told the Associated Press, "If it is something that's directed toward American troops, then it's something that's taken very seriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does New York Have a Serial Bomber? | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...their behavior is Noel Coward-sophisticate compared to what happens when the monster strikes. A horror/sf/disaster movie loses points every time you're forced to ask yourself, "Why are they doing something so stupid?", and the answer is, "Because they're in a horror/sf/disaster movie." And if you thought that Abrams - the creator of Felicity, Alias and Lost, and the writer-director of the spiffy if underperforming Mission: Impossible III - would produce a horror movie that was not just high-concept but high-IQ - you misjudge his faithfulness to a genre requiring that, in extremis, people act in a manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corliss on Cloverfield: The Blair Witch Reject | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...pernicious habit of moral sloth and validated pride. These bad habits, easily formed and even more easily justified, make our own politics more bitter, more boastful, and less humane. Unsurprisingly, these self-styled moral paragons select an investment bank to impugn—a target fit for the coward or the sycophant too fearful or too flattering not to pander to popular prejudices. Despite the competitive investment-bank recruiting process and their selective hiring, it is de rigueur for Harvard opinion-makers to cast aspersions at them. As they submit their résumés in droves, Harvard students...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: A Band-Aid for Bleeding Hearts | 11/4/2007 | See Source »

...What a great hair day I’m having.” Coming from the mouth of your run of the mill Joe Hetero, these remarks sound ludicrous. Men, for whatever reason, seem largely content with themselves as they are. Noel Coward, not your typical Joe Hetero, admitted, “First thing in the morning I have a face like a woolen mat. And yet I am the most desirable man in the world.” The world could stand more women who share that sentiment...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Effortlessly What? | 10/16/2007 | See Source »

...find it morally reprehensible, and the act of a true coward, to publicly (world wide) smear a man and his family and not sign one's own real name to what they have written. I sign my name to what I write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

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