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AGADEZ, Niger—My great-grandfather Emmott O’Keefe was a doctor. He made house-calls in Northern North Dakota on a dogsled and carried with him a small black leather bag. Inside, Emmott kept various combinations of useless herbal remedies and semi-potent painkillers�...

Author: By James H. O'keefe, | Title: Of Doctors and Borders | 7/7/2006 | See Source »

The signature sound bite of Benedict XVI's papacy may have been delivered the day before he became Pope. Just hours before entering the Sistine Chapel to help choose John Paul II's successor, then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave an impassioned sermon in which he decried the "dictatorship of relativism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy War Of Words | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

The President's image across Europe is so poor that in a recent poll on the Continent, a majority of respondents said the U.S. was more of a threat to world stability than China or Iran. When questioned about that poll at a news conference in Vienna last month, Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Friends in Very Strange Places | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

Bush occasionally got crabby on European trips early in his presidency; in 2002, after enduring days of anti-American demonstrations, he famously called NBC's David Gregory a preening "intercontinental" when Gregory asked French President Jacques Chirac a question in French. But Bush's advisers believe he has discovered a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Friends in Very Strange Places | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

If the allegations of the slaughter of innocent Iraqi men, women and children are proven to be true, the Marines involved should be punished accordingly [June 12]. That American troops are stretched too thin and under incredible stress is not an excuse for murder. But the ultimate focus should be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Happened at Haditha? | 6/27/2006 | See Source »

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