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...things gone and not memorialized, but rather left to simply be. “And look,” one has to think, “present-day Italians, once Romans, once the most powerful people in the world, can’t even get it together to label the rubble...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman | Title: In Defense of Ruins | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

When five militants, all Russian citizens, were shot and killed in a gun battle at a remote military checkpoint near Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, the Tajik government was quick to label the dead as "members of an organized terrorist group." The group has not been named, but the shootings highlight the grim irony of the struggle against terrorism in Afghanistan. With the U.S. increasing military pressure in Afghanistan and Pakistan mounting security operations along its border with the country, fighters from Russia and the ex-Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia are returning home. And while that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Afghanistan's War Is Spilling into Central Asia | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

ANNOUNCED In an incursion into Microsoft's territory, Google revealed plans to release an operating system designed for PCs in 2010. The news came the same day the company removed the "beta" label from its Gmail application, which debuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...take the hip-hop tropes - hating authority, and hating the police - and use it for our own lives. It felt so empowering that you could come from nothing and become a god. Like all fantasies, it was an illusion. If you look at Death Row Records, everybody on that label was just viciously exploited. But it was such a beautiful lie. (Read an interview with the author of The Hip Hop Wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Onion's Nathan Rabin | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

When Obama first entered the race for President, many Russians could not get past his skin color. Prior to his win, tabloids constantly referred to him as "the black-skinned candidate" and the Russian public, not overly concerned with political correctness, seemed happy with the label. But as Obama prepares to visit Moscow on Monday, there are bigger issues at hand, and Russians are starting to warm to the American President as they look beyond his pigmentation and turn their focus to his policies. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, Russia and the Question of Color | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

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