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...even PAS's Kepala Batas candidate, Subri Arshad, doesn't believe he'll trump Abdullah. All he hopes for is to lower the PM's margin of victory. But if Kepala Batas entrepreneurs like Lee Peir Jye are any indication, Abdullah has little need for concern. "It doesn't matter if it's Abdullah or someone else," says the mobile phone-shop owner. "As long as we support the government, there will be stability, and that's good for business." Not a ringing hometown endorsement, but it's all Malaysia's accidental Prime Minister needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lowered Expectations | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...feel-good” brand of service really worse than action motivated by genuine desire to help others? Should motives really matter so long as service gets done...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scrambling to Serve | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...Whatever the findings of the latest PPIC research, it will do little to cool the passions on either side of the issue. When debating immigration, says Mears, "it doesn't matter what the empirical evidence shows; people react with their gut feelings first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration: No Correlation With Crime | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...many that makes Tuesday's troubles all the more unsettling in a national context. Then again, if a number of things went wrong in Florida, just as many things actually went right: except for the initial substation breaker, the system responded - and was back up in a matter of hours - as it should have, perhaps preventing a more serious outage that could have lasted well into the dark night. "This certainly raised a red flag about Florida's vulnerability, if not the nation's," says Twomey. "But in the end the system worked as it was supposed to." In other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Blackout: A Warning Sign? | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...good, error-free baseball as Clinton tried to score on him from every imaginable direction. Beyond that, the tenor of the evening depended in part on what you were shopping for. Clinton tried time and again to draw sharp distinctions between herself and Obama, and argue that the differences matter; while Obama, turning aside most of the distinctions large or small, used his time to rise above the arguments, elevate the conversation and invoke the larger causes that dominate his campaign speeches. In this regard, Obama narrowly but unmistakably outpointed Clinton, with the potentially decisive Ohio and Texas primaries less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Clash of Styles in Ohio Debate | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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