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...effusive in their praise for Soufan, they seemed to pay little notice to his testimony. Graham pointed out that since Soufan was not actually in the room when detainees were being waterboarded, he could not know whether or not the method had yielded useful intelligence. (See six ways to fix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Partisan Passions Dominate Interrogation Hearings | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

Three thousand dollars to fix the pipes beneath a tennis court; $462 for the upkeep of a swimming pool; $942 to fit a chandelier. The extravagance of many of the expense claims filed by British MPs in recent years, deliciously catalogued this past week by the country's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which obtained leaked details, have British voters fuming. In a poll taken by the Times of London, more than four fifths of Britons thought all the country's legislators were as bad as each other for milking their allowance system, if not illegally, then far beyond its spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expenses Scandal Only Adds to Brown's Woes | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

...banks needed to remain solvent, and the government would then provide that amount to the banks. Now the Treasury is giving the banks that are believed to need additional money, including Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo, until June 8 to come up with their own plan to fix their financial problems. (See pictures of the dangers of printing money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bank Stress Tests: A $75 Billion Mid-Term Exam | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...grip on power in Afghanistan; Karzai is for cementing the status quo. By way of consolation, the talk in Washington now is of bypassing Karzai as often as possible, working through approved members of his government in the capital and in the regions. But it's a potentially messy fix. Just as in Vietnam, the U.S. in Afghanistan finds itself fighting an implacable guerrilla foe on behalf of an unpopular government. And Karzai knows, as do his enemies, that America's appetite for long-term entanglement in Afghanistan is limited. They're positioning themselves for a post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama and His Troublesome Allies | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...Americans grew fond of the idea that you can fix depression simply by taking a pill - most famously fluoxetine (better known as Prozac), though fluoxetine is just one of at least seven selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that have been prescribed to treat hundreds of millions of people around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Antidepressants Don't Live Up to the Hype | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

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