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...crowded and crumbling, the power constantly fails, the water is unsafe and the bureaucracy is complicated and burdensome? How do you transform a structure so deeply entrenched and with so many powerful political backers? How do you drag a wasteful, archaic system into the 21st century? The answer: detail by tiny detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...same time, Obama is beginning to put forward the sort of detail-laden policy proposals that have been lacking in a campaign that has thus far consisted largely of high-minded rhetoric about the need for a new kind of politics. This week, for instance, he announced a detailed health-care plan that he contends will provide coverage for nearly all the 47 million Americans who lack it and will trim the average family's health-care costs by as much as $2,500 a year. But it fell short of meeting the universal-health-care goal that has become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Candor Candidate | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...this is not mere attention to visual and behavioral detail; it is a consummate film artist's weaving of a world and its inhabitants. Reygadas' genius is to sanctify each moment -the milking of cows and harvesting of grain, the children being washed in a stream, a sweetly illicit kiss in the woods -so that, when melodrama intrudes, it will have the power of inevitable tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicapping the Palme d'Or | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

Still, Neusner was "amazed" when he heard that Ratzinger, now Pope, has revisited it in detail--and in print. When a papal confidant told the Catholic News Service that it was "one of the reasons" Benedict had undertaken his entire two-volume Jesus of Nazareth project, the somewhat puzzled but delighted professor called it "an academic love letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Favorite Rabbi | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

...Bush explained the declassified threat in some detail at the Coast Guard Academy, saying that bin Laden had tapped Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to organize attacks on the U.S. from his base in Iraq. Bush has long maintained that the U.S. would be creating a massive staging area for al-Qaeda if it pulled out of Iraq prematurely. In his speech, Bush reported that bin Laden directed a senior aide, Hamza Rabia, to huddle with Zarqawi on al-Qaeda's other attack plans around the world that year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Intelligence on Al-Qaeda in Iraq | 5/23/2007 | See Source »

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