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...There is anger at President Bush's attempts to unilaterally impose reform from afar, but it is followed by grudging acknowledgment of the problem. "We know we have to change," a businessman said in one of our meetings. "Please keep pushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Camel That Came in Second | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...hardest conversation of all was with Putin. During a speech in Brussels, Bush said that "all European countries should place democratic reform at the heart of their dialogue with Russia." So when the two leaders met later in the week in Bratislava, Slovakia, there was no chummy back-slapping. Putin was defensive, deflecting concerns about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media by pointing out that reporters from TV network cbs had been fired in the U.S., too. The accusation - no American reporters have been fired by the White House - confused Bush and reinforced the Administration view that Putin sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: He's All Ears | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...part of the E.U. and adopt the constitution or do you wish your country to leave the E.U.?" But a no vote doesn't automatically mean ejection or even the death of the constitution. A more likely scenario, says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, is that a "messy core" of countries would proceed while the naysayers would get some kind of associate membership. That's the sort of compromise that has worked in the past when E.U. treaties have run aground. It may not be very tidy, but at least it would save the constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winner Takes All | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

George Bush knew Vladimir Putin would be defensive when Bush brought up the pace of democratic reform in Russia in their private meeting at the end of Bush's four-day, three-city tour of Europe. But when Bush talked about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media and explained that democracies require a free press, the Russian leader gave a rebuttal that left the President nonplussed. If the press was so free in the U.S., Putin asked, then why had those reporters at CBS lost their jobs? Bush was openmouthed. "Putin thought we'd fired Dan Rather," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vladimir Putin, CBS News Loyalist | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...debate over Social Security reform got nasty last week when this ad from conservative lobbying group USA Next appeared on the American Spectator website. Blogs such as DAILY KOS and TALKING POINTS MEMO (TPM) challenged the implication that the AARP, which opposes Bush's privatization plan, is antitroop and pro--gay marriage. The ad was removed hours later, but TPM continues to ask whether USA Next, whose assault on the AARP is run in part by the people who created last year's Swift Boat ads, is connected to the Administration. USA Next denies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blogwatch: Mar. 7, 2005 | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

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