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...Doping of a Nation (PRESS, Dec. 22). But bravo for Geraldo! His live telecast of drug busts gave us a look at the real world, not the slick, Madison Avenue version of it served up by a senior anchorman sitting in air-conditioned comfort. Rivera investigated the drug mess in the only logical way -- by going out and seeing it. Funny that in wartime the frontline journalist is a courageous, noble hero. In covering the drug war, however, Rivera is depicted by TIME as a gonzo reporter. If you don't like the real world, don't blame the fearless...
...coalition that replaced 13 years of reformist Labor rule was raw and clumsy. Promises were broken or brazenly reclassified. The ministerial departure lounge attracted frequent flee-ers. But its fat parliamentary majority meant the Howard government did not lack the appetite for transformation or a fight. Inheriting a fiscal mess, the new government's fixers appeared to relish the task of taking money away from universities, welfare recipients and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Taxpayers' assets were passed on for sale to merchant bankers, government debt was shredded, and a shareholder democracy was born. When Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith launched...
STICK 'EM UP Starfrit's Quick Fix spatulas ($3 to $5) clamp to the edge of a pot to keep drippings off the counter and help minimize mess. The head is made of silicone--the hot material in today's kitchens--so it won't melt into the tomato sauce...
...standing in the middle of a religious shooting war. Civil wars are notoriously difficult to mediate without taking one side, and it doesn't help that in Iraq, battling Shi'ites and Sunnis seem to agree on only one thing: that the U.S. is ultimately to blame for the mess. Khalilzad is pleading with Shi'ites and Sunnis to return to talks on forming a new government. Still, it could be weeks, even months, before a workable new government is in place in Baghdad. That would be bad news for Washington, which desperately wants a quick political solution in Iraq...
...sting those who rattle me. Don't mess with me, Condoleezza." HUGO CH?VEZ, Venezuelan President, lashing out at U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after she stated that Venezuela had become a "challenge to democracy...