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...Administration's policies - objectivity is still very much the goal - but the way those policies were expressed. Part of the problem had been Bush's two unsuccessful press secretaries: his first, Ari Fleischer, had proven capable but combative and condescending; his second, Scott McClellan, had been inadvertently caught up in misleading the press about the White House leak of the identity of a CIA officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Tony Snow | 7/12/2008 | See Source »

...having a secret weapon: language. In America, no one would speak in loud English to share a secret. We expect that people know English. But here, Chinese was lobbed to and fro, expected to be way over our heads. But even with only one year under my belt, I caught some words...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan | Title: A Comedy of Language | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...shots. What's more, the weather along Britain's coasts can change so quickly that golfers teeing off in the afternoon may find themselves playing in completely different conditions than competitors who started earlier in the day. At Birkdale in 1998 Woods lost his chance for victory when he caught the worst of the weather on the second day, struggled to a 73, and eventually lost to veteran tour pro Mark O'Meara by a single shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Path to Perfection | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...Boom, or Bust? Consumption has been so strong in the U.K., Ireland and Spain for the past few years in part because house prices have been soaring, making consumers feel a lot richer and enabling them to borrow against the rising value of their property. But gravity has finally caught up with the housing market in much of Europe, especially in those three countries. It's anybody's guess how far prices will fall, but the signs aren't encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Economy: Falling Down | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

Nonetheless, sweeping changes inside Russia's oil and gas sectors in recent years have dented Western investors' faith in the country's rule of law. Caught up in a state effort to claw back control of lucrative assets, some were left badly scarred. In 2006 BP rival Royal Dutch Shell was forced to give up control of the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project off Russia's eastern coast after the country's environmental regulators threatened to shut it down. Gazprom, Russia's state-owned energy company, duly took over the operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Fine Mess in the Oil Business | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

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