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...Putin's threat is a pointed response to the U.S. decision to install missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. The American justification is that NATO needs to extend its defenses against a potential attack from Iran, but few Russians accept that argument. Poland and the Czech Republic are a vast distance from Iran, so Russian public opinion needs little persuasion by the Kremlin to worry that NATO's true aim is to line up bases against Russia. Such fears have been growing since the mid-1990s. Presidents Gorbachev and Yeltsin had never imagined that NATO would recruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the World's His Stage | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...ostentatious consumption and misogyny become the norm for the hip-hop movement? -Carl Gauss, Venice, Calif.It is the norm for American culture. Hip-hop expresses things people won't say. You do it, listen to it and accept it. It's just when rappers express it, people are shocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Russell Simmons | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...conventional orchestrations, mostly college professors.Adams cites the fact that the Pulitzers denied Duke Ellington the award for Music as grounds for how narrow the Pulitzer Committee is in awarding the prize.RETURNING CHAMPIONNow much acclaimed, Adams will return to a much tamer campus than that of his college days to accept the Harvard Arts Medal. In addition to delivering a lecture on his life’s work, Adams hopes to revisit the stimulating atmosphere that nourished his artistic impulses.“The friends I made at Harvard and the kind of intellectual and spiritual exploration I took, they formed...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Musical Founding Father | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...merely semantic. Indeed, the Edwards foreign policy will be built around a rejection of the Bush doctrine, which puts a primary emphasis on the projection of American military power. "Americans are completely prepared for, and receptive to, an alternative approach," Edwards said. "I don't think they would accept an approach that did not include a component of strength. Our capacity to lead requires that we be strong - and that we have the moral authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edwards Rejects the "War on Terror" | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...about a looming Islamist threat, it could do lasting damage to an economy that has until now been performing extremely well. The Turkish army, which helped precipitate the crisis by issuing a widely condemned communique opposing the ruling party's choice for President, apparently hopes that Turkish voters will accept the generals' view that the pro-Islamic AKP poses a threat to Turkish society, and turn them out, or at least vote in a coalition that would force the AKP to share power. For its part, the ruling party expects to return with an enhanced majority and the full backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fears of a Coup in Turkey's Crisis | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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