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...over Bosnia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone and aid to Africa. But now he is stymied, because his war in Iraq has made his grand vision much less attainable, and strengthened the terrorists he abhors. He knows it, but will not publicly admit it. (Last week, when he started a long answer to a question from David Frost on al-Jazeera about Iraq's being "pretty much of a disaster" with the apparent agreement, "It has," his spokesman said no admission was intended.) So now his speeches take strange turns of logic around the hardest questions and are populated with straw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running on Empty | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

Pelosi will have to answer those questions with her actions in the months ahead. "It was a serious misstep and inexplicable to me," former Republican leader Dick Armey chortled. "I just hope she does more of it." But the Murtha defeat will be largely forgotten if the Democrats under Pelosi's leadership rack up a series of victories on the agenda that she had laid out for her first 100 hours as Speaker, which includes raising the minimum wage, forcing Medicare to negotiate lower prescription-drug prices, cutting student-loan rates and making the national-security fixes recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Nancy Pelosi Get The Message? | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...male chauvinism that stood out even in an institution where the only private rest room adjacent to the chamber is for men. (Women members have to go around the corner and through a reception area to use a facility in Pelosi's office suite.) Murtha's backing "was the answer to sexism in the place," says an aide to Pelosi. "If he didn't have any problem with a woman in leadership, no one else would either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Nancy Pelosi Get The Message? | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...answer is that Lott won (by one vote over Tennessee's Lamar Alexander) because he spent the past four years quietly making himself as useful as possible to his colleagues. He lent his old strengths as a backroom dealmaker and a master of arcane Senate rules to sometimes thankless tasks. He not only won back allies that way, but he also sharpened the exact skills that his party will need for the next two years, when its main goal will be to stop Democratic bills from seeing the light of day, let alone the President's desk. As the whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revival of Trent Lott | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...boredatlamont.com and you'll get a unique answer: The 5th floor johns of Lamont are closed due to the copious amounts of crazy anonymous gay sex happening there...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: The Men of Lamont | 11/18/2006 | See Source »

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