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...think Ronald Reagan, and Nixon, and Johnson, for goodness' sake. I think more often than not we happen to elect guys that are good for my business. Bush has been great because, to get pretentious for a moment, Freud says you laugh about what you fear. On that basis, Bush has provided many more laughs, because the fear level has gone up so drastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Shearer on Political Satire | 7/18/2008 | See Source »

...vastly more freedom in their personal lives, the Communist Party still suppresses any public discussion of the legitimacy of its rule or talk of alternatives to the current authoritarian system of government. And there's no doubt that the same party cadres that allowed Beijing's cultural flowering to happen still have the ability to smother the creative explosion if it gets out of hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Revolution | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

That case might make the current Court appear hospitable to environmentalists. But Massachusetts v. EPA was another of the Court's many 5-4, bitterly divided rulings, with both Justice Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts dissenting from the majority. Those two happen to be the Justices whom McCain says he would like his possible future Court nominees to emulate. "One more conservative on the Court and [the Massachusetts] case would have likely gone the other way," says Kendall. "You have to think about what's going to happen to the composition of the Court over the next eight years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Green Crossroads for the Supreme Court | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...each in damages, depending on how long they had lived in the neighborhood. "This has been a long saga for lots of these people," says G. Michael Payton, the OCRC's executive director. "The humiliation, the feeling of being treated like second-class citizens - that shouldn't happen today. We're supposed to be past that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Water a Matter of Race | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

...hand, and American and Israel on the other, that would settle the cold war for the Middle East. This means that the United States would have to give up once and for all its project for a "new" Middle East, and its penchant for regime change. That might happen on its own in November if Barack Obama becomes President. But a package deal would also have to solve the Iranian nuclear issue, map out the future of post-American Iraq, solve the Syrian-Israeli conflict, the Lebanese-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict all in one go. Would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Syrians Take Paris | 7/14/2008 | See Source »

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