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Belarus is in many ways a post-Soviet nation in name only. Its state security service is still called the KGB and the iron-fisted rule of President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has led the U.S. State Department to dub the country "Europe's last dictatorship." U.S.-based nongovernmental organization Freedom House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belarus: Can Europe Change Its 'Last Dictatorship'? | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

Ironically, despite its iron-fisted reputation, ARENA has not been able to tackle El Salvador's most urgent crisis, violent crime. The country has been overwhelmed by transnational Central American gangs like the Mara Salvatrucha - which actually originated in Los Angeles among the children of Salvadoran refugees waiting out the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador's Left Wins with the Ballot, Not the Bullet | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

To his credit, Bono never stops noodling with ways to make a connection. He slips into characters (a soldier in "White as Snow," a journalist in "Cedars of Lebanon"), scats like a young Beat poet and, in a moment he will probably regret, impersonates your office IT guy ("Restart and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U2's Unsatisfied — and Unsatisfying — New Album | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

It is 7:30 p.m. on a Thursday night, and the threat of encroaching deadlines and hard-fisted professors has forced most students back to the safety of their dorm rooms and library study carrels. However, at the Let’s Go office, located within the Harvard Student Agencies...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ready, Set, Let's Go | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

The uneasy alignment of Abhisit and Newin reflects a fundamental rift in Thai society between disaffected rural voters and a disgusted urban elite that cannot fathom the string of populist - and sometimes iron-fisted - leaders whom the masses have been choosing to represent them. Bangkok may gleam with malls and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Prime Minister Abhisit Mend Thailand? | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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