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Democrats like Congressman John Murtha and Senator Carl Levin regularly criticize Bush for running the troops ragged and cite this as an argument for withdrawal from Iraq. But the President is getting conflicting information about the strain of the extended rotations. Two days before he left on his trip to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Reality Check in The Desert | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

His new movie has torrents of words and goes heavy on macho posturing; at times it suggests a ragged off-off-Broadway play. And De Palma is not going for subtlety here: Flake, the craziest of the squad members, has a Confederate flag for his bedspread - he's a lunatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq War Films Focus on Soldiers | 9/1/2007 | See Source »

Not that it didn't continue to torment her. Years later, describing the joy in Jesus experienced by some of her nuns, she observed dryly to Neuner, "I just have the joy of having nothing - not even the reality of the Presence of God [in the Eucharist]." She described her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

The teachers coax the children into ragged lines in the schoolyard for a solemn morning assembly. A week before, an arson attack by Muslim insurgents had razed the old school building; some pupils wept when they saw the charred remains of their classrooms. "I don't have to ask how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Endless Woe | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

Don’t think that it’s a Harvard phenomenon—it’s not. High schools, colleges, and offices around the world are filled with people dying for 30-hour days. If only everyone had more time! It’s a phenomenon that...

Author: By Karan Lodha | Title: Getting Busy | 4/2/2007 | See Source »

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