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...herself facing a moral dilemma: Was it possible that the disaster of Charlie's presidency - the war, the thousands dead - was her fault, just as the long-ago auto accident had been? Was she, having forced Charlie to sober up and get his act together, responsible for giving the nation this charming but limited man as its President? She is boggled by the simultaneous intimacy and superficiality of public life - that the fact that Charlie likes grabbing dinner at a local hamburger stand might be more important than his views on Islam. One can easily imagine, or perhaps hope, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Klein on the Fictional Laura Bush | 9/3/2008 | See Source »

...perks of one-man rule is picking your national holidays. Libya's Col. Muammar Gaddafi has invented a few fêtes for his North African nation since seizing power in a 1969 coup. Three years ago, during stalled negotiations with Italy over reparations for Rome's colonial rule in Libya, he added another: Oct. 7 became "Vendetta Against Italians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy Pays Reparations to Libya | 9/2/2008 | See Source »

...combination of Germany's second- and third-largest banks creates the country's No. 2 bank with $1.46 trillion in assets, half the size of the nation's market leader, Deutsche Bank. In terms of retail customers in Germany, the newly enlarged Commerzbank is now the leader in German retail customers, with 11 million compared to Deutsche's 9.7 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The German Merger Against the Odds | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...campaign is determined to make the most of it by using it to rebrand a new generation of Republicans as leaders who govern effectively and rise above partisanship. "There's very little doubt that we have to go from a party event to a call to the nation for action, action to help our fellow citizens in this time of tragedy and disaster, action in the form of volunteering, donations, reaching out our hands and our hearts and our wallets to the people who are under such great threat from this great natural disaster," McCain said midday Sunday, after receiving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain to Seize the Stormy Moment? | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...will not escalate the situation, there?s still a danger that the siege could turn violent. The Thai military has a dark record of targeting political agitators, most recently in 1992 when its forces massacred unarmed demonstrators in Bangkok. And the specter of another coup perennially hangs over a nation that has suffered multiple military takeovers over the past half-century. As evidence of the prevailing nervous mood, Thailand's benchmark stock index has plummeted nearly 25% since the PAD began its protest movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Demonstrators Test Thai Hospitality | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

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