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Immigration is the subject Europe's politicians would rather not talk about. No issue generates more emotion, and few others seem as confounding to solve. Take a stand on either side of the debate, and you're bound to get burned. Vowing to act tough on illegal immigrants and false...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sea of Promise | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

There is something intoxicating about the sight of hundreds of thousands of civilians taking to the streets, protesting corruption and demanding justice. Those thousands of marching feet, beating hearts and waving placards become in our minds' eye the physical manifestation of democracy's soul. How can they be wrong? They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Power Redux | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Nine months ago, the geeks were expected to inherit the earth. Now they consider themselves lucky if they remembered to hit CONTROL-S on their PC keyboards before the screen faded. Once the ruling emotion was IPO frenzy; now it's PG&E fear. The Internet itself is pretty well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Grim and Dim for the Dotcoms | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Happily for taxpayers, no one seems particularly interested in pursuing a formal investigation - Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer reports that the President is eager to forgive and forget the transgressions, because he "understands that transitions can be times of difficulty and strong emotion." (Loosely translated, that means: "I have no interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Shenanigans: Pranks or Vandalism? | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

The Japanese have a word, haragei, which refers to the hara, the belly (as in hara-kiri) which is, in Japanese culture, what the heart is in the Western tradition: the core and home of will, authentic emotion, sincerity. Haragei, (a sumo wrestling match of contesting authenticities; the art and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Discourse in the Age of the Smackdown | 1/25/2001 | See Source »

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