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...ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Sept. 20?and therefore the next Prime Minister of Japan? Try both. Even more so than his popular boss Junichiro Koizumi, who steps down at the end of the month after more than five years in power, Abe is an unabashed conservative, eager to strengthen the U.S. alliance and promote a more assertive role for Japan abroad?despite the risk of further antagonizing neighbors like China and South Korea. At home he promotes patriotism as an answer to Japan's social ills, and opposed efforts led by Koizumi to allow a woman to ascend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abe Enigma | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

Five years after 9/11, Americans are understandably eager to finally get an unfiltered--read nonpoliticized--look at our "high value" captives, the transnational actors, so-called, at the center of global drama. An authentic legal process would give them that--which is why the Administration is dead set against it. The problem is not really with classified information. Most of what these captives told us is already common knowledge or dated; the U.S. hasn't caught any truly significant players in two years. However, discovery in such a case would show that the President and Vice President were involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unofficial Story of the al-Qaeda 14 | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...version reminds us that there is no reason a giving God could not invest even an awkward and needy creed with a mature and generous heart. If God does want us to be rich in this life, no doubt it's this richness in spirit that he is most eager for us to acquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does God Want You To Be Rich? | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...need it. It was the off-duty doctors and nurses tending to the injured in cars, vans and alleyways. It was the strangers carrying the disabled, elderly, young and injured to safety. It was the legions of concerned Americans rushing not away from Ground Zero, but to Ground Zero, eager to help their neighbors any way they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Should Remember September 11 | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...hybrid?s creation was Clinton?s idea, and he approached Ford, the only American automaker with hybrids on the road. Ford obliged, eager to have a ?tastemaker? behind the wheel, as one Ford executive described Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drive the Clintonmobile | 9/7/2006 | See Source »

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