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Fort Campbell is a long way from the island in the Thar Thar Canal, north of Baghdad. But a court-martial at the U.S. military base, which straddles Kentucky and Tennessee, has begun to examine in detail what happened in that Iraqi locale in May 2006, with polarizing consequences for the way Americans perceive the way the war is being waged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Army Murder Trial Begins | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...worst in recent memory-and blame is falling on the city government for failing to make infrastructure fixes that might have prevented the devastation. Waterways like central Jakarta's Ciliwung River routinely overflow in heavy rains, despite government pledges to clean them up. Work on a floodwater canal in East Jakarta has dragged as residents complain about poor land compensation. And unchecked development is eroding green areas critical to absorbing rainfall: a former catchment area in Kemang, South Jakarta, now an expat enclave, saw its worst flooding in years last week. "If there is no change in policy, the problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreseeable Floods | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...used U.S. troops to suppress the fledgling Philippine republic in 1898, said he had prayerfully searched his soul before deciding it was his duty to "civilize and Christianize" the Filipinos. Theodore Roosevelt, who encouraged an insurrection in the Colombian province of Panama so that he could build a canal through it, liked to consult with Attorney General Philander Knox about the legality of his various aggressions, but Knox was not the sternest of critics. "Ah, Mr. President," he asked on one occasion, "Why have such a beautiful action marred by any taint of legality?" When Roosevelt yearned to seize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Devilish Doctrine of Deniability | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Abb? Pierre's death comes just weeks after activists for the homeless erected scores of tents along Paris's Canal Saint Martin to call attention to their plight. Chirac earlier this month proposed that the "right to lodging" be inscribed in the French constitution, a measure that Abb? Pierre had long advocated. Now the government has proposed that the enabling legislation be named the "law of Abb? Pierre." Thus conceived, it is sure to sail through parliament on January 30, a concrete legacy to a life that transfigured France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Voice of the Voiceless | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

...worst ravages of man and nature. Instability there has the potential to engulf the entire Horn of Africa in war, with neighboring countries Ethiopia and Eritrea jockeying for influence and pirates using the lawless coast as a base to launch attacks on the freighter traffic headed for the Suez Canal. Some of the Islamists have vowed a guerrilla war against the new government, which they deride as a puppet of Ethiopia and the U.S. On top of all that, a double disaster of summer drought followed by December floods has left more than 500,000 Somalis dependent on foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Somalia | 1/11/2007 | See Source »

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