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Russia has escalated its showdown with its small, NATO-inclined neighbor of Georgia by closing all transport and postal communications. No trains, no flights, no ships, no vehicles, no mail money orders - nothing can cross the border. This time, it's much worse than just another Russian spat with a former satellite state. The Georgia standoff may soon create a major headache for the Bush Administration, because of U.S. support for Georgia's right to align itself with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Russia-Georgia Spat Could Become a U.S. Headache | 10/3/2006 | See Source »

...when he gets tired of such revilement? "What any successful filmmaker would do," his press release boasts: challenge his enemies to a boxing match. And so Boll, 41, a former amateur boxer with 10 years experience, has done just that. This weekend, on the set of his newest film Postal-you guessed it, another adaptation of a violent video game, set to open in 2007-he will enter a boxing ring with four Internet film critics, one after another, for a three-round slugfest that he hopes will teach critics a lesson about who they?re slamming. For their trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'World's Worst Director' Fights Back | 9/23/2006 | See Source »

...STEPPING DOWN. Heizo Takenaka, 55, finance minister from 2001-2005 credited with helping engineer Japan's economic revival; in Tokyo. His controversial reforms halved Japanese banks' non-performing loans, saving many from collapse, and helped initiate the privatization of Japan's gigantic postal savings system. Currently Internal Affairs Minister, he has said he will retire when Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's term ends on Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/18/2006 | See Source »

...Keeping a brisk pace, the wheelbarrow pusher has covered a staggering 58 km a day so far-traveling faster than the Gladesville postal worker Nobby Young, who at 44 km a day over 365 days, set a record pace for circumnavigating Australia in 1994. But the very Zen-like Shaw would seem to be in no real hurry to return to Ringwood. "Back on the Nullarbor," he says, of the limestone plateau he's just crossed, "you can hear the bark peeling off the trees. It's amazing-it's just that quiet. You become part of the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wheel Altruism | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...Right now 1.8 million people work for the government, not including the military or the postal service. The government will have to replace almost a million of them in the next few years - as many as already work at Ford, IBM and Bank of America combined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uncle Sam Wants You | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

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