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...destined to cost more American and Iraqi lives. The American people elected a stubborn boy to do a man's job and found him wanting. In fact, the whole world finds him wanting. He squandered all the goodwill that flowed toward the U.S. after 9/11 and made a monumental mess of the Middle East, turned the U.S. into the biggest debtor nation in the world, divided the country, flunked on all the important domestic problems and is losing South America. R. Walter Weller Strathroy, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has China Got What It Takes? | 2/6/2007 | See Source »

...work in practice all the time on the next person stepping up and being there, but I don’t think we were there,” Cusworth said. “It was a lot of individual mindsets—‘Don’t mess up on my guy.’ The help defense definitely wasn’t what it was supposed to be.” Harvard’s shoddy defense also created an advantage for Yale at the free-throw line, as the Bulldogs’ ability to beat their...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Halftime Lead, Crimson Succumbs to Yale at Home | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

...cooking equipment. There is a quiet tug-of-war going on in restaurant kitchens between Luddites and chemists, with chefs pretending to be both--pumping locally grown organic raspberries into foam with a canister of nitrous oxide. But I think you need to pick sides. Either you want to mess with stuff, or you don't. And the egg--in its wimpy little shell and its I'll-be-whatever-texture-you-choose- to-cook-me-into submissiveness--wants to be messed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: The Perfect Egg | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Aquino spent a good part of the week cleaning up the mess left after the firing of another man who had underestimated her, former Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. Having dismissed Enrile a fortnight ago after accusations that he was plotting against her, she was now slowly revamping her Cabinet at the urging of her armed forces Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos and other military leaders. Aquino had earlier announced the removal of Natural Resources Minister Ernesto Maceda and Public Works Minister Rogaciano Mercado, whose ministries had been accused of corruption. Last week she added Minister of Local Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Anxiety on the Eve of a Cease-Fire | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...nice to mess with Mother Nature - especially in Austin, Texas, where there is a record of an actual citywide tree hug taking place in 1989. So when five dozen birds fell from the sky earlier this month talk shows and chatrooms were ablaze with theories and outrage over what killed Austin's grackles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Most Fowl? | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

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