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...this stage, almost no one is talking about a rapid, large-scale troop drawdown. Inside the Pentagon, officers privately caution that troop levels could even rise if Iraqi security forces don't shape up as expected, if the insurgency grows more fierce or--of greatest concern--if civil strife evolves into full-fledged civil war. In fact, a senior Pentagon official tells TIME that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asked his planners last week to make sure they have a contingency option if things go very badly in Iraq next year...
...Viewed together, his photographs counter the conventional perception of China as a nation in the grip of rapid social change. Delano, an American who lives in Japan, has been traveling to China since 1994 and shot most of this collection in the late 1990s. But many of the photographs look much older. A woman humping a load of bricks up a cobblestone street in Yunnan, a peasant in a straw hat watching river boats, a beggar near the imperial palace?these scenes could date back to a time when the camera had only just been invented. This is deliberate. Delano...
...critical for wrapping up a new multilateral trade accord, the ninth since 1947. This one is known as the Doha Development Round because it was conceived four years ago in the Qatari capital and is supposed to give a special boost to poor countries. But at a moment of rapid change in the world economy, with China emerging as an industrial colossus and India and Brazil starting to throw their weight around, the stakes in Hong Kong are higher and the pre-meeting positions more intractable than ever. Talks on freeing up agricultural trade are stuck as usual, and without...
...first day of preseason practice is always an eye-opener for the freshmen on the Harvard football team. In full pads, in the muggy Massachusetts heat, the rookies get a crash course in college ball. The pace is vastly swifter than in high school. Coaches bark out rapid-fire orders. The drills are complex. The running never stops...
...Washington's interest in bolstering the alliance is plain, so is Tokyo's. Koizumi has made a strategic decision to yoke his nation ever more tightly to the U.S. as a buffer to the seemingly inexorable rise of China, measured not least by the rapid modernization of its armed forces. During his four and a half years in office, Koizumi has pushed Japan and its so-called Self-Defense Force into a much higher profile on the world stage. In 2002, the Japanese destroyer Kirishima set sail for the Indian Ocean to help refuel U.S. and allied ships involved...