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...like it has with Israel, which has sold $35 million in arms to China since 2000. It clears purchases that might disturb the U.S. in advance. That degree of subservience won't fly in Paris or Berlin - nor end China's human-rights abuses. Sighs a British diplomat: "This mess isn't going away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banned In Beijing | 3/27/2005 | See Source »

...Mather’s lovely prison cells). There must be some correlation between being satiated and well-housed and Quadlings’ athletic skills, evidently: The Straus Cup record of seven consecutive wins remains in the Quad with Cabot House. The River Houses should know better than to mess with people who walk miles everyday. It’s training, not punishment...

Author: By Lauren R. Foote, LAUREN R. FOOTE | Title: Royal Quadlings | 3/24/2005 | See Source »

...last week. Faced with continuing probes by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, the AIG board thought it best to stop antagonizing regulators and pushed Greenberg, who will turn 80 in May, to resign. Otherwise he might have survived the mess, which centers on a deal that AIG cut with General Re, a company that insures insurers. Investigators say AIG bought insurance from Gen Re and accounted for it in a way that overstated revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Another Titan Takes A Tumble | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...Smith of Oregon, who wanted $14 billion restored to Medicaid, and so did Jim Bunning of Kentucky, who-soaring into the wild blue yonder-wanted $64 billion more in tax cuts. And so, kerplop. The Bush budget sank of its own cynical inelegance. Which leaves us with a legislative mess, the same mess as last year's, when the House and Senate couldn't agree on a budget. Only it's worse this time, because if the two houses can't reconcile themselves, a host of beloved conservative bonbons that mustered the 51 votes necessary for the passage of budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Creative Stubbornness of Harry Reid | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...year later, the only visible evidence of Batchelor's wound is a couple of small, chicken pox--like scars. But mentally he's a mess. He has 14 different bottles of medications to help him control his temper, his migraines, his depression and more. Still, he often flies into inexplicable fits of rage. He has cursed out commanding officers, hit his father, pushed Kristy and pinned her down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Roads Back | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

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