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...allow them more room to maneuver, say analysts. The Poles, for example, are offering 12,000 hectares of firing ground about 50 km from the German border that includes a specialized urban-warfare training facility complete with underground passages, a railway station and a bank. The Romanian port of Constanta on the Black Sea, already in use for Iraq, provides sea access to Central Asia and points east. Feith and other Pentagon officials stress that the aim is not just to move east but to change the nature of U.S. deployments. "We want to do things in a highly expeditionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Ready On The Eastern Front | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

...reputation as a nanny state. Targeting Aristide HAITI Three people died and more than 20 were injured in violent clashes between opponents and supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Opposition leaders, who accuse Aristide of corruption, called a two-day general strike, which shut down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student a visa to study English in Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 1/11/2004 | See Source »

Thirty years ago, my girlfriend and I took an overnight ferry from Piraeus, the port of Athens, to Iraklion, on the island of Crete. After mooching around the Minoan ruins at Knossos, we hitchhiked to the wildly beautiful lands in the west of the island. The girlfriend became my wife, and every year or two since-15 times in all-we've returned, to the same village, the same indescribable light, the same White Mountains plunging into the same wine-dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Ways of Being Modern | 12/16/2003 | See Source »

...When the port-o-potty’s rockin’, don’t come a’ knockin’.  Simeon R. Buell ’05 and his ex-girlfriend and sometimes fuck-buddy, Alison F. Harmon ’06 found all sorts of relief when they ventured off to use the facilities at the Harvard-Yale tailgates. The very drunk couple upchucked several liters of bodily fluids between them and then, with their equilibrium partially restored, proceeded to swap much of what remained in an impromptu two hour romp within the potty?...

Author: By Gossip Guy, | Title: Gossip Guy | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...declined requests for an interview with TIME.) But ongoing, wide-ranging investigations by the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office are coming disturbingly close to the President. According to a copy of an indictment obtained by Time, an influential businessman named Lee Young Roh visited a posh sashimi restaurant in the port city of Pusan on Dec. 19 (the day of the presidential elections). There, he allegedly held a secret dinner meeting with Sohn Gil Seung, CEO of the SK oil and telecom conglomerate. The businessman told the SK chief he should contribute nearly a million dollars to help repay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Face | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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