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Perhaps, looking back on Beijing 2008, we will judge the Games as the moment that China assumed the role of future superpower. Tokyo '64 was like that, heralding the emergence of what was to become the world's second largest economy. The enduring legacy of Beijing 2008 won't be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Play | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

But if Clinton really wants to give Obama a boost, he won't just try to re-litigate the 1990s. If this election were a referendum on the Clinton legacy, his wife would be preparing her acceptance speech instead of fielding praise for her endorsement speech. Tonight, the man who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Bill Clinton Should Say in Denver | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

The basic question is whether Clinton is willing to pass the Democratic torch, to concede that while he might have been the party's bridge to the 21st century, Obama is the 21st century, the new believer in a place called Hope. Clinton likes to play the elder statesman, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Bill Clinton Should Say in Denver | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

Assuming we're in for at least some legacy-polishing rehash of the past, the first way Clinton can help Obama would be to tie John McCain to the right-wing Republican obstructionists who opposed everything he proposed. In the 1990s, McCain was still a fairly loyal Republican who voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Bill Clinton Should Say in Denver | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

Nick Forster had the idea for Etown in 1990, when he returned to the U.S. after touring in Eastern Europe. The environmental devastation he saw there - the legacy of communist misrule - inspired him to do something to stem the tide of climate change. He realized - given his fundamental belief in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Greener Convention, A Greener Future? | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

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