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...spin and misdirection. Our meeting took place last Saturday in a villa on the outskirts of Havana, where he was attending the confab for leaders of nonaligned nations, a gathering that included other irritants to the West such as Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...
Construction on the building began in summer of 2005. According to FAS spokesman Robert Mitchell, work will be completed in spring of 2007. The New College Theatre will offer a 272-seat performance hall, more backstage space, and offices for student clubs...
They joined the military into college, or out of the ghetto, or because of its seemingly studly glamour. "I saw a Marine when I was in high school," Sergeant Robert Sarra recalls in a new documentary. "And I was like, that's it! They're mean, they're tough, they got cool uniforms, and chicks dig 'em." That image barely survived through Sarra's basic training--brainwashing, he and other young men now call it. As for combat, he found it less like a Top Gun video game, shooting MiGs out of the sky, and more like Grand Theft Auto...
...outing of CIA operative Valerie Wilson (né Plame) consumed Washington for three years. The case received a radical reconfiguring when former State Department bigwig Richard Armitage confirmed that he was the original source for columnist Robert Novak's revelation. Novak weighed in last week, calling Armitage's contrition bogus and the leak deliberate. In the D.C. bureau of Fox News, anchor Brit Hume goaded Plamegate chronicler David Corn into an off-camera shouting spree. "Both leaked classified information, Brit!" Corn raged. "Go ahead and laugh!" Here, TIME re-evaluates some major players. [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy...
...market for housing futures gets large enough, though, other sorts of financial products more useful to homeowners should crop up, says Robert Shiller, a Yale University economist who has been pushing the idea for 15 years. The grander vision, developed with Karl Case of Wellesley College, includes home-equity insurance. The idea is that companies will write those policies if there's a robust futures market for hedging risk. "Real estate is bigger than the stock market," says Shiller. Twenty trillion dollars big, in fact...