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The ministers were the last bricks on the façade that is the all-party national-unity government of Prime Minister al-Maliki. Earlier in the year I had watched from close quarters as U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad worked tirelessly to make that government possible, pleading, cajoling until all the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life In Hell: A Baghdad Diary | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

What came out of this furious schooling was an amalgam of all these influences that Dylan forged into his own ornery persona. It was as cannily career-minded as it was artistically valid. Dylan mystified and promoted himself, inventing a biography that included being a seven-time runaway and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Dylan at 65 | 5/24/2006 | See Source »

Instead of racial tensions, the conflicts here are tribal: classroom cliques of jocks, nerds, skateboarders, cheerleaders. The movie suggests that, by junior year, kids are pigeon-holed in their groups, afraid to explore other, ornery dreams. Like white-collar wage slaves, but 30 years too early, they are undergoing a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! | 4/7/2006 | See Source »

Stung by an ornery public and exasperated Republican law- makers, the White House is preparing a blitz of TV-friendly events to show that George W. Bush knows what he's doing in Iraq, and to define achievable terms for victory. The drive started last week at the Naval Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking Up Iraq at Home ... | 12/5/2005 | See Source »

(2 of 3) When the Soviet Union crumbled in 1991, most people of Belarus were taken aback by their sudden freedom, and shocked by an onslaught of corruption. In 1994, they elected Lukashenko, 51, a former state farm boss, popularly known as the Batska (which means both father and leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Tyranny Rules | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

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