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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that ignores the effect journalists' choices have on what people want. The media don't brainwash people into wanting MJ 24/7; millions deeply loved him. But once a news frenzy gets momentum, it becomes its own justification. The spectacle becomes the reason for the spectacle. It becomes The Thing That Everyone Is Talking About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson: Goodbye, or See You Soon? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...with the ever changing face of terrorism? Good question! As with a stray weed, we need to destroy its roots; trimming a few leaves won't do. Searching cars and people at airports is a weak, pathetic response. We need decisive and sustained action against the organizations that recruit, brainwash and train terrorists. Unfortunately, we seem to be pouring all our efforts and resources into alleviating the symptoms rather than fighting the disease. Noru Tsalic, coventry, england...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...with the ever changing face of terrorism? Good question! As with a stray weed, we need to destroy its roots; trimming a few leaves won't do. Searching cars and people at airports is a weak, pathetic response. We need decisive and sustained action against the organizations that recruit, brainwash and train terrorists. Unfortunately, we seem to be pouring all our efforts and resources into alleviating the symptoms rather than fighting the disease. Noru Tsalic, COVENTRY, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Party Lines | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...good reason. It is only the smallest of many, many freedoms that Iraqis gained after the U.S.-led coalition toppled the dictator. They also got the right to vote, satellite TV, cellphones, the ability to travel out of Iraq, and a new education system that doesn't brainwash children into worshiping Saddam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq Then and Now: What's Been Won and Lost | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...that's just filling in Lecter's curriculum vitae. At the end of the 1999 book, Dr. L had managed to hypnotize or brainwash Clarice, and we were left with the image of the killer and his favorite pursuer ensconced in Buenos Aires as a contented couple. Will the fair damsel snap out of it and escape her lover-tormentor? Maybe she'll unearth his submerged humanity and turn Hannibal into a vegetarian; the fava beans and Chianti would still be on the menu, but not his latest victim's liver. Or, if he's permanently lured Clarice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Becoming Hannibal Lecter | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

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