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Could this buzz attack of bad news send Sarkozy scrambling, as Chirac often did, for the safe bunker of the status quo? Not unless he gets spooked into making a serious strategic mistake. Because despite souring public opinion and the risk of gains for the left at the polls, one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sharp Spur of Adversity | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

To that generation of reformers, the West was the shiny future, progress the ultimate good. English and French were spoken round the dinner table, and the women gathered to knit the latest Paris fashions. These children of a revolution dreamed of a westernized Turkey, and naively believed a little social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Veiled Hostility | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

Art $440 million Value of art auctioned last year by Sotheby's and Christie's in Paris $800 million Value of art auctioned in Asia in 2007. On the strength of artists like Cai Guoqiang, whose gunpowder-on-paper abstracts sold for $9.5 million in November, China has passed France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

During the chaotic days of the 1980s, Mughniyah was able to travel with relative ease around the Middle East and even in Europe. In the mid-1980s, the CIA cut a deal with Lebanese military intelligence to fund a sophisticated listening post in the Lebanese mountains that could eavesdrop on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hizballah Mourns Its Shadowy Hero | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

If so, global warming may exacerbate the threat - an unsettling thought, given the viciousness of the disease. "The plague bacillus is probably the most pathogenic infectious agent on the planet right now, and we still don't know why it's so virulent," says Elisabeth Carniel, a plague expert at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of the Plague | 2/12/2008 | See Source »

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