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...held power for a week before, you know, realizing he really couldn't be bothered to exercise it, and giving it back. I roused the head of the National Petroleum Agency from his siesta and interviewed him as he sat bare-chested on his verandah with his unfastened belt hanging between his legs. I drank excellent coffee, ate some great dark, heavy chocolate, and when I ran out of people to meet, Danielo took me to see the Boca del Inferno (Mouth of Hell), which turned out to be a rocky channel in the surf with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepwalking in Sao Tome | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

...that the Blackwater team was driving on March 31 were not armored; they had only a piece of metal behind the backseat. During training, team members were told that they would be sent to Iraq with semiautomatic M4 machine guns and Glock handguns and that larger weapons, like a belt-fed 5.56 machine gun squad automatic weapon, would be issued upon arrival. They were also told they would be doing advance work in Iraq, gathering intelligence, inspecting routes and doing prep work before starting a new contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victims of an Outsourced War | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...French Countryside There has to be something to be said for the Common Agricultural Policy, and indeed there is. The timeless contours of la France profonde - at least south of the wheat and beet belt - are a testimony to the long subsidy of French farming. The cap may offend free-trade purists, but on a summer morning somewhere in the Dordogne there's something to be said for impurity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's so great about an ever closer union anyway? | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...Then comes the Striptease, the long conveyor belt where you have to put all your belongings before going through the security check. Some days they make me take off my jacket, other days, my shoes or my belt. It's very frustrating, especially when you get behind a woman with lots of earrings and bracelets who doesn't know how the machine works - and there are hundreds of people pushing and shoving behind you. I've seen sick people desperate to reach a doctor, or people screaming because they're going to miss their airplane or connection to Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Room for Civility at the Checkpoint | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

...shot to tie the game at 77 with just over a minute to play.With Harvard in need of a big play, the entire arena expected the ball to go to either Goffredo, who had been unconscious all night, or Housman, who already had 15 second-half points under his belt. But instead, the offense found an unlikely crunch-time outlet. Junior forward Brad Unger received the ball wide open behind the arc and decided to spot up and shoot instead of swinging the ball to a heavily-guarded Goffredo. Unger, who is something of a secret weapon for the Crimson?...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Basketball Rallies to Topple Cornell | 3/4/2007 | See Source »

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