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All too often war is condensed into meaningless Arabic numerals. It becomes place names and dates. It becomes a simple sum game of territory exchanged and penalties levied. The different wars (spoken aloud like different varieties of vegetables) acquire snappy appellations—The War on Terror, Desert Storm, The...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'DAY' SHINES LIGHT ON MAN'S SARKEST DEPTHS | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

The standoff in N'Djamena, however, represents something of a dilemma for the international community, especially so in France, whose new government has expressed a desire to move away from a long and notorious policy of propping up friendly despots. Déby's regime has been widely accused of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Chad, Better the Devil You Know? | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

And, perhaps expressing this desire for a clean break with the past, early signs were that many overseas Democrats view Obama as their best hope for repairing relations with an outside world they know much more intimately than does anyone inside the Beltway. Obama's supporters looked to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Primary Starts Too | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

But Lott recently quit the Senate. Cochran no longer chairs the appropriations committee. And the Bush Administration - despite its sympathy for drilling, mining and logging, and its skepticism of regulation - has been as green as a general's uniform when it comes to the Army Corps. Usually, the motivation has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Green Day for Bush | 2/2/2008 | See Source »

The beauty parlor's proprietress is carrying on a hopeless affair with a married man. One of her assistants, engaged to be married, is resorting to desperate measures to hide the fact that she is not a virgin from her intended and his conservative family. Another assistant is rather surprised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caramel: A Satisfying Bonbon | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

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