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...crippling flaws, but maybe the greatest sin of a powerful man is in never, ever doubting himself. W. gives Bush a climactic wrinkle of copelessness, but the movie is mostly content to motor on familiar tracks. Like its central character, it seems never to have questioned itself about its mission or even asked if it had one. For this normally crazy-brilliant auteur, the last and lasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oliver Stone's Verdict on George W. | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

Sarah Palin promises to focus on energy independence if she becomes vice president, a mission she claims to be uniquely qualified for as governor of an oil and gas-producing state. "We must get there," the GOP nominee said September 18 on Fox News. "It is a matter of national security and our future prosperity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin's Blown Opportunity on Energy Independence | 10/12/2008 | See Source »

...limited, because the financial turmoil is global. The organization might be able to lend a hand in specific situations. On Thursday the IMF announced it was restarting an emergency lending program that had been active during the 1990s Asian crisis for developing countries. The IMF has already sent a mission to Iceland, which is suffering from a financial meltdown. "All kinds of cooperation has to be recommended," IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons From Asia's Last Meltdown: Act Fast | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...accumulated throughout a decade-long career as an independent rapper and filmmaker. As a result, his biggest fear doesn’t seem to be the destruction of the genre, but the destruction of his cred with a major label release. For the most part he succeeds in his mission of shaking up the nation. He schools rappers and listeners alike about their heritage in “The Science,” which serves as a sort of Cliffs Notes take on the origin of hip-hop and ranges from slavery to crack.Similarly...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MURS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...year civil war. According to the CPA, neither North nor South Sudan is allowed to rearm in the period before a 2011 referendum is held on South Sudanese independence - unless they have express permission from a Joint Defense Board, which is then obligated to inform the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan. A spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Sudan tells TIME that the mission has received no such information about the tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Somali Pirates: Tanks, but No Tanks | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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