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...Back home, such a marked shift in tone will play well. Britons may expect their Prime Minister to be warm and friendly, but Blair's frequent and effusive expressions of amity toward his chum in the White House made many of them feel queasy. On that front, at least, they might welcome a little British reserve from Grumpy Gordon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Question Of Character | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

...persuading 41 countries at a donor conference in Paris to pledge $7.6 billion for Lebanon's reconstruction. He is also pushing for an international tribunal that will put on trial anyone accused by an ongoing U.N. investigation of political assassinations in Lebanon. The killings of Siniora's boyhood chum Hariri, and of journalists Gebran Tueni, Samir Kassir and a dozen others since October 2004, have been widely blamed on the Syrian regime. The point of the investigation, he explains, "is not only to get to know who committed these crimes, but to protect democracy. It is not a vendetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standing His Ground | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...talked about Moffett's clients. After a few minutes, Moffett gave the Senator his card. By the time the lobbyist got back to his office, the Senator's campaign staff had sent him an invitation to a $1,000-a-plate fund raiser. "When you're holding the chum," says Flake, the Arizona Representative seeking reform, "you can't complain about the sharks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Democrats Take Back K Street | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...Improbable as it may seem, Ortega, now 60, has reemerged as the frontrunner in Nicaragua's presidential race through his alliance with an unlikely chum, former President Arnoldo Aleman. The corpulent Aleman would seem to be the skinny Ortega's antithesis - an arch-conservative Somoza acolyte elected President in 1996 in a wave of nostalgia for the pre-Sandinista days. But as President from 1997 to 2002, Aleman stole tens of millions of dollars from public coffers, including $1.8 million he charged on a government credit card for his wedding in Miami to a woman 22 years his junior. Aleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Old Bogeyman Makes a Comeback in Nicaragua | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...watchers tallied nearly 3,770 bald eagles in the skies over Brackendale, British Columbia. Ever since then, this small Canadian town has rejoiced in the title of "bald-eagle capital of the world." Why Brackendale, you might ask? The answer is to be found in the annual spawning of chum salmon, which turns the nearby Squamish River into a floating buffet that North America's iconic raptors find irresistible. Spawning season runs from mid-November to mid-February, and the best way to get close to the eagles swooping in on their prey is to join an "eagle safari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Early Birds | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

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