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...George W. Bush what he should do on Iraq or anything else more profound than a dockside suggestion like "Try this new lure to hook the stripers." The father would consider it an insult to his son's abilities. Besides, the elder Bush has told almost anybody willing to listen that the world of power and technology has moved beyond him. "I'm not plugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: What Makes Dad Clench His Jaw | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

...avoided during demonstrations. But all parties tested the limits of regulations designed to protect the rights of the nonpartisan majority to study and live in peace, while protecting the rights of groups advocating a point of view to express that view visibly and audibly to those who chose to listen. There was, of course, nothing new in all that, except the issues being contended...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Harvard in America, a Year Later | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

...gather in Tercentenary Theater once again this year, as we listen to the bells of Memorial Church and remember what we have lost and what we have learned, we must also reaffirm what makes America strong—our commitment to civil liberties and to responsible actions abroad. Today we mourn, but we must not lose the values that we hold dear...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: September 11 Remembered | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

...Dalkon Shield to asbestos exposure, Feinberg got the job done, more or less inventing the field of mass tort mediation as he went along. "The secret to Ken's success," says a judge who has worked with Feinberg on a number of occasions, "is that he knows when to listen and when not to. He'll hear proposals from both sides, then ignore everybody and find a middle ground he thinks is fair. Then he devotes himself to lobbying the claimants toward his proposal. And let me tell you, he could make a mint as a lobbyist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Special Master: Holding the Checkbook | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...hundreds of Russian-speaking immigrants--men in dark suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game--are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish-language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sacramento: Where Everyone's a Minority | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

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