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In decrying the excessive alcohol consumption of their compatriots, American and British health experts have long pointed to France with special admiration. Here, they said, was a society that masters moderate drinking. In wine-sipping France, the argument went, libation is just a small part of the broad festival of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Combat Youth Binge-Drinking | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

Even the terminology used to describe the manual move is under dispute. On reporting Obama's speech, The New York Times described it stuffily as a "closed-fisted high-five" while Human Events reader racily suggested it was closer to "Hezbollah-style fist-jabbing," (the comment was later removed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the Fist Bump | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

What's more, for a candidate who sells himself as the foreign policy sage in the field, McCain at times sounded more like the diplomatic neophyte he accuses Obama of being. McCain, for instance, insisted that he could and would get the hemisphere and the world on board with our...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misreading the Cuba Vote | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

It is unlikely the octogenarian dictator will successfully rig this election after almost two weeks of inexplicable delays in releasing results. By ballot, death, or something in between, Mugabe will be out soon. As the international community prepares to help a future government rebuild Zimbabwe, it is crucial to acknowledge...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Colonialism Redux | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Mao Zedong, for instance, would likely roll over in his grave to learn of the publication, in a recent biography, of this rambling and rather mushy scrap of marginalia from his days as an idealistic student: “Since I cannot forget the feeling I have toward the one...

Author: By Charlie E. Riggs | Title: Margin of Error | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

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