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...what does eating potato chips have to do with our larger, more important life decisions? Consider the choice to marry one sweetheart over another. If you pick the genial, down-to-earth banker, will you forever regret letting go of that free-spirited artist who loves traveling as much as you? Probably not. The very fact that you'll be living with - and experiencing - one spouse and not the other means that the passed-over option will quickly fade in your mind. "The people you don't marry don't move in with you," says Gilbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can You Predict Happiness? | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

TIME: You were arrested, jailed and then put under house arrest for your support of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry three months ago. Do you regret your decision to pursue this cause? AHSAN: Why should I regret it? I play a clean game of cards. It is a shame that the world doesn't notice this most unprecedented move - in all history around the world, from ancient, medieval to modern, there is no precedent of an emperor or a shah or a king or a sultan or a Caesar dismissing 60 judges and arresting them. And some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with a Lawyerly Rabble-Rouser | 2/16/2008 | See Source »

...Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman expressed regret over Spielberg's decision on Thursday, while the Beijing Games organizing committee noted that "linking the Darfur issue to the Olympic Games will not help to resolve this issue and is not in line with the Olympic Spirit that separates sports from politics." But those responses came nearly two days after Spielberg announced his decision to withdraw, adding yet another news cycle to an issue Beijing clearly wanted to go away. "They need to learn to do a better job of this, there's no doubt," says David Zweig, director of the Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Spielberg Problem | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

Sometimes words speak louder than actions. In Canberra on Feb. 13, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd voiced regret "for the pain, suffering and hurt" of the country's disadvantaged Aboriginal minority. It was a cloudy morning, but the crowd outside Parliament House was in a sunny mood. People brown and white laughed, embraced and snapped photos. Said Mavis Garrett, 67, an Aboriginal woman from Queensland: "If I see Mr. Rudd, I think I'd just run up and give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saying Sorry | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

After another hour, Colonel Rhonda Earls, the hospital commander, got on the phone to give Melissa the news. "Mrs. Cassidy, I regret to inform you that we found your husband in the barracks, and he is dead." A military chaplain and casualty-assistance officer arrived at the house at about midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dying Under the Army's Care | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

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