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...loyalty, companionship, friendship, ferociousness." He sees himself as essentially selfless in bed: "I don't like being loved; I like loving. I have too much love to give; I don't want to accept it." That sounds more like the need to control, dominate, set the terms for sexual combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Gets Real | 5/17/2008 | See Source »

...Millan assassination appears to have sparked new urgency on Capitol Hill to pass President Bush's $1.4 billion, three-year plan to help Mexico combat narco-terror. Yet, while the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved the measure on Wednesday - even raising the funding to $1.6 billion - its fate on the House floor, and in the Senate, remains uncertain...

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

...lots of it, as quickly as possible. The global integration of capital markets, coupled with the fall of communism, has triggered an enormous explosion of international financial flows, which has both facilitated criminal behavior, as trillions of dollars slosh around the world, and made it much more difficult to combat crime. Winer and his colleagues identified the development of a coherent global anti-money-laundering strategy as key in trying to stem the shadow economy's swelling river. But it proved an uphill struggle. The sums involved in the liberated capital flows were vast. By mid-1990, the foreign-exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Gangsterism | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...bond they did. And in the years since then, their friendship has created a new organization to combat the destruction of the environment, landing the two on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, which was released yesterday...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chivian Joins TIME’s Most Influential List | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...shocked would be an understatement. I had never seen any approved CENTCOM campaign plan, either conceptual or detailed, for the post?major combat operations phase. When I was on the ground in Iraq and saw what was going on, I assumed they had done zero Phase IV planning. Now, three years later, I was learning for the first time that my assumption was not completely accurate. In fact, CENTCOM had originally called for twelve to eighteen months of Phase IV activity with active troop deployments. But then CENTCOM had completely walked away by simply stating that the war was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much Did Rumsfeld Know? | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

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