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...Colorado politics is more complicated than a simple choice between national presidential candidates. McCain and Obama will share the ballot with a raft of voter-sponsored amendments, many of them touching on hot-button issues that the candidates can't afford to ignore. A controversial ballot initiative can fire up strongly committed constituencies and bring them en masse to the polls, where, of course, they'll also cast a presidential vote. This year's contenders range from a call for prayer time in public schools to a proposed sex strike to end the Iraq war. One of the highest-profile...
...fault Davidson's energy. It doesn't even bother me, much, that his feel for medieval history is patchy. (Though as a former Dungeons & Dragons aficionado, I feel bound to point out that crossbows do not fire arrows; they fire bolts or quarrels.) What bothers me is that The Gargoyle is a hymn to the power of love to triumph over time. Love triumphs over time only in romance novels. In literature, as in life, it goes the other way around. As the poet Delmore Schwartz put it, Time is the fire in which we burn...
Surviving Disaster "How to Survive a Disaster," [june 23] was wrong about fire-drill requirements in New York City. The idea that the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) opposes such drills is also completely false. REBNY has consistently supported mandatory, semiannual fire drills, as well as evacuation drills. Because of the danger involved with having people travel down as many as 40 to 60 flights of stairs, and after learning that two heart attacks had resulted, the industry - working with the fire department - agreed that drills shouldn't require walking all the way to the street. Instead, drills...
...strained by the Kabul attacks, recent bombings in two major Indian cities and skirmishes just this week along the border in Kashmir. Starting July 28, soldiers on both sides of the border exchanged gunfire for 16 hours in what was termed the most serious violation of the fragile cease-fire in place since 2003. Following routine security talks on July 21, Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon said the peace process between the two countries was "under stress...
...Pragmatic objectives such as halting Palestinian rocket fire out of Gaza and recovering a kidnapped Israeli soldier being held there have prompted the Israelis to abandon their own taboo against dealing with Hamas and negotiate a cease-fire via Egypt. Those pragmatic imperatives will remain even after Olmert has left the scene, as will the ones that prompted Israel to begin negotiating with Syria via Turkey this past spring, in the hope that Damascus can be detached from Iran - something officials close to the Syrian leadership have told TIME will not happen. And the effort to press for action against...