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Innumerable pundits have vied to pronounce upon the social and cultural development of the Chinese, but Polumbaum's approach - letting her subjects speak for themselves - appears to be the one now needed most. After putting her interviewees into context with a concise introduction, she simply lets each one recount their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the Press | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

When certified clairvoyants operate on the premise that, whatever they may foresee, anything can still happen, the rest of us in the prediction business might try to find a little humility. The injunction not to try to write the end of the story applies to us as well; this fateful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the Spirit World | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

But behind the united front, says an adviser, "it's not a great relationship, and it's probably not going to become one." In private conversations, associates say, Clinton remains skeptical that Obama can win in the fall. That's a sentiment some other Democrats believe is not just a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have the Clintons Gotten Over It? | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

This week's setback simply reflects how unrealistic that prediction was, given the imbalance in power between the two sides. While the desire to break out of international isolation in order to save his collapsing economy has brought Mugabe to the table, inside Zimbabwe, he and his security forces still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Power Failure in Zimbabwe's Talks | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

Four and a half years later, Hamdan is still at Guantánamo, but Swift's prediction has proved correct. A Yemeni man in his late 30s, Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, was at the center of perhaps the Supreme Court's most important decision on presidential power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salim Hamdan: Enemy Number One | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

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