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...empire that defined Britain. It didn't have to explain itself because it knew who it was and it felt superior to every other country in the world. With the loss of the empire, its ego took a huge battering and there was never any equivalent to help cement the people together and give them an identity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Lyall on Why the Brits Are Different | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...being driven by big changes in the global economy that look set to continue. Even the most cheerful optimist in the past decade has seen the huge divide between the haves and have-nots, but the hope has persisted that it would somehow go away. Inflation has set like cement into that divide, solidifying the gap between the two Indias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Inflation | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...Tuesday morning, four attack helicopters swept in over the brow of the hill and fired incendiary bombs into the wheat field. Villagers ran for cover. It was the second attack in less than 12 hours. In the early hours of this morning, a group of Russian jets bombed a cement factory and railway line in a neighboring village. In nearby Gori, the hospital was attacked; a Dutch journalist was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Scene: Georgia's Ravaged Capital | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...being driven by big changes in the global economy that look set to continue. Even the most cheerful optimist in the past decade has seen the huge divide between the haves and have-nots, but the hope has persisted that it would somehow go away. Inflation has set like cement into that divide, solidifying the gap between the two Indias. The future for the country is two futures: rosy and grim. Indian companies will buy more foreign businesses and more Indian children will starve. In economic terms, India has become neither the U.S. nor Sudan, but something in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of the Indian Dream | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...after he married tennis great Chris Evert, Norman had defied all expectations by displaying three rounds of breathtaking golf redolent of the form that won him British Open Championships in 1986 and 1993. But his final-round 77 and tied third-place finish behind England's Ian Poulter further cement his standing as golf's most heartbreaking avatar of almost-but-not-quite. Yesterday included, Norman has now led seven times going into the final day of a major without going on to win (his only front-of-the-pack victory was at Turnberry in 1986). He will remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harrington Beats Norman at Birkdale | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

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