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...able to restore some of the Green Zone's former impregnability. But there's no guarantee that will last, and it comes at a cost. With the new security restrictions being erected and a bunker mentality increasingly taking hold, the U.S. civilian presence is likely to retreat inward, behind the walls of its new embassy--and even further away from the reality of Iraq's dysfunction...
...Nothing was said because words fail, and because the mood of this campus has turned decidedly inward. The administration has posted prominent signs on all academic and residential buildings barring reporters and camera crews. Over the weekend, the student government issued a polite but firm request that the media pack up and leave...
...hardest. Most Europeans are like that. As individual nations, we may argue over the garden fence, but when a neighbor's house goes up in flames, we pull together and put out the fire. History suggests it sometimes takes an emergency for us to draw closer. Looking inward won't cut it. As a professional navel gazer, I recommend against that form of therapy for anything other than songwriting. We discover who we are in service to one another, not the self...
...green-white-and-black Palestinian flag on a makeshift pole flies from the mosque in the distance. Now one sees the young Palestinian, wrapped in a dense, irrational thunder, walking up the road. His legs move like scissors, stiffly; his body is jolted with anger. His eyes, looking inward and outward simultaneously, are sightless with rage. They are red and shattered, as if a bomb had gone off inside them and fractured the window glass, behind which is a red fire. He does not want to talk, but does, finally, when he has settled down. He says a Jewish settler...
...dazzling, just wait until you explore the ones hidden inside your own head. In the 1960s, when human beings were first venturing into outer space, TIME explored those efforts and traveled with astronauts, through launches from Sputnik to Apollo and far beyond. Humanity is on a similar quest now, inward rather than outward, and just as readers decades ago came to count on us for news from the cosmos, so can today's readers look to us for dispatches from the brain. We will be putting together a team of reporters, writers, and scientists--our own brain trust--to regularly...