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...Mexico, set a new benchmark in the Colombia-style drug carnage that continues to rage from Tijuana to Cancun. Mexico has already logged almost 1,200 drug-related killings this year - putting it well on track to break last year's record of almost 2,500 - as an increasingly chaotic array of drug gangs fight one another for trafficking turf, and against any officials who dare to confront them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Mexico's Drug Terror Be Stopped? | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...primitive, almost childlike style he developed in jail. "He has this need to fill his canvases with as much as he can," Weber says, "because he may not have another chance." In a recent painting of his adopted home, for instance, Htein Lin depicts London as a chaotic welter of traffic and pedestrians. Every inch of the canvas is covered with color, as though the artist is unsure who will donate the next sarong or smuggle him the next smudge of paint. It's a subtle reminder that being out of prison isn't the same as being free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Survival | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

When the United States struggled to respond to Hurricane Katrina and the disastrous flooding of New Orleans in August 2005, John McCain backed the Bush administration’s actions. He urged people to avoid “premature judgments” in that chaotic time. Now, struggling to remain in the public eye as presidential politics swirl around Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, McCain has conveniently condemned President Bush’s handling of Katrina, contradicting his campaign message of “straight talk...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Straight Talk Express? | 4/30/2008 | See Source »

...suggesting that the Conservative is the funnier man, perhaps even the ultimate joke candidate. Billboard posters and 4.2 million postcards being distributed by Livingstone's campaign urge voters to imagine Johnson, despite more than six years as a member of parliament still best known for his many comically chaotic appearances on British TV game shows, in charge of London. "Suddenly he's not so funny," warns Livingstone's campaign literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: London's Mayoral Race: No Joke | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...pretty sharp--that comes with the territory. But the opprobrium has taken on a distinctly unpleasant edge in recent weeks as a wave of nationalist anger has roiled China. "Simon, you will be hated by 1.3 billion Chinese," someone wrote in response to my blog post about the chaotic progress of the Olympic torch through London. "Hope someday someone will spit on your face. Your name will be recorded in Chinese history book forever as one of cold blooded, Hitler-type, murder's assistant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China's Burning Mad | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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