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What a raw deal for the U.S. military.  We put our troops under extreme pressure day after day, with no relief, and then when they crack we want to try them for murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 3, 2006 | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...handle such overdoses - if they get there in time. "I never remember another outbreak of overdoses [like what] we have had in recent months," says Chicago Police Superintendent Phil Cline. "Over one weekend, we had 24. More than 60 fatalities, and more than 700 overdoses. Even in the crack years, I've never seen it with the same deadly consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Break in the Deadly Drugs Case? | 6/16/2006 | See Source »

...software in Russia, according to the International Intellectual Property Association (IIPA). Crime syndicates are widely believed to control the business, worth an estimated $1.7 billion a year, according to the IIPA. With Russia seeking entry to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Western governments are pressuring Moscow to crack down on counterfeiting. Yet the trade is flourishing. "We've put very high-level pressure on the Russians to deal with this," says a Bush administration official. Two Bush cabinet heads have discussed allofmp3.com with Russian government ministers, to no avail, he adds. Says the official, "this is our poster child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Brand of iTunes | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

...Life in Baghdad went on as usual - heavy traffic in sweltering heat, Kalashnikov-toting Iraqi police cruising the streets in flatbed trucks, the occasional crack of distant gunfire. In Kirkuk car bombs killed more than a dozen people. In the capital more bodies turned up in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Baghdad, a Show of Solidarity — and Force | 6/13/2006 | See Source »

Gottesman, famous for remembering the names of volunteers, floats above all the political, military and advance-office silos and orchestrates each group's interaction with the President, incorporating preferences and efficiencies learned from other days and other cities. On the road he'll crack a joke if Bush is getting tense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Knows Bush's Mind Best? | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

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