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...secular voice returns to the country there could be hope," he says. "But right now it's very bleak. The country is obviously in danger, but I believe Iraq could recover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraqi Theater Lives — in London | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...McCain also managed to dust off a few of his old jokes, and even engage in some gallows humor. When one reporter asked about the bleak outlook for his campaign, McCain replied: "You mean, in the words of Chairman Mao, it's always darkest before it's totally black?" And as he left the event, McCain had one last gibe for the large press corps that had assembled as something of a death watch: "I look forward to the same turnout at every stop I make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Goes Back to Move Forward | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...widely and seek consensus on its terms. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human-rights group Liberty, often critical of Blair's approach, praises the new government for "resisting party politics or a knee-jerk rush to the statute books." Bob Marshall-Andrews, a Labour M.P. and bleak critic of the Blair Administration, says, "There is a completely different spirit in Parliament, and everyone can feel it. The signs are that we are in for a much more liberal and less authoritarian period of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calm at the Center | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...written a book on crime in New Zealand. "This is their excitement. This is their entertainment. This is what they live for. They live for their patch, for their gang and for their neighborhood. They are living worthless, meaningless lives without a proper future." Paea's prognosis is equally bleak: "We are in a situation where the ambulance is parked at the bottom of the cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tribal Trouble | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...widely and seek consensus on its terms. Shami Chakrabarti, the director of the human-rights group Liberty, often critical of Blair's approach, praises the new government for "resisting party politics or a knee-jerk rush to the statute books." Bob Marshall-Andrews, a Labour M.P. and bleak critic of the Blair Administration, says, "There is a completely different spirit in Parliament, and everyone can feel it. The signs are that we are in for a much more liberal and less authoritarian period of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Secretary's Trial by Fire | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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