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Although this position on drugs might taint him as an “incurable radical,” the truth is that Morales’ boat is testing two very different waters. He visited China with Hugo Chavez’s private plane, but he sensibly cancelled the visit to Iran and met with the American ambassador in La Paz; he talks of controlling the Santa Cruz “oligarchs” that reign over Bolivia’s wealth, but also about respecting international laws when renewing contracts with foreign investors in La Paz’s gaseous...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Between Solitude and El Dorado | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

...brought to trial for killing a seven-year-old girl. After drowning his victim, he used her cell phone to take a digital photo of the body and to send the image to her mother with a text message saying, "I've got your daughter." In a country where truth is often weirder and more gruesome than fiction, few writers can compete with the stories on the evening news. The chilling exception is Miyuki Miyabe, one of Japan's most popular authors. In Crossfire, her third novel to be translated into English, Miyabe's heroine, Junko, sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Burning Mystery | 2/6/2006 | See Source »

...seems ridiculous to call the shirt racist in and of itself. The argument, of course, is that it perpetuates stereotypes. Do you know what often perpetuates stereotypes? Truth. Believe it or not, many Asians tend to have eyes that are narrower than most people of Caucasian background (hereafter white people). Thus, there may perhaps be a grain of truth behind the shirts, even if they are “offensive...

Author: By Shai D. Bronshtein | Title: Hardly Racist | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...January 17, 1959 speech is his inspiration for “Why We Fight.” In his address, Eisenhower warned against a society too tilted toward war. Jarecki says he was awed by Eisenhower’s candidness: “Eisenhower told the American public the truth.” The youngest filmmaker ever to present a film at the Sundance Film Festival, Jarecki attended Princeton University but found the drama program lacking. However, the absence of a solid drama program spurred Jarecki’s entrepreneurial spirit toward filmmaking. After working in political advertising and visiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jarecki Addresses Film to Youth | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...Coretta summed up her and her husband's struggle: "By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping the transcendent ethic of love, she shall overcome these evils. Love, truth, and the courage to do what is right should be our own guideposts on this lifelong journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) | 1/31/2006 | See Source »

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