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...that Wyoming had just passed. Clarke promised to work closely with the state "to ensure fair protection of surface-owner interests." Governor Dave Freudenthal, a Democrat up for re-election in November, says that isn't enough. "What the BLM is doing at the national level is rattling a saber, sending a signal that companies do not have to comply," he tells TIME. "But we will enforce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Bittersweet Boom | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...take nothing you see for granted. Same goes for the film's title character, Eisenheim (Edward Norton), who astonishes Vienna theatergoers of a century ago with his subtle sleight of hand. In an instant, this sorcerer can make an orange tree sprout from a seed. He can stick a saber on a floor that strong men are unable to dislodge. Perhaps he can bring the dead back to life. You are welcome to conclude that Eisenheim possesses darker powers, that his guise as a mere illusionist is his cleverest illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Both a Trick And a Treat | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

Iranian dissident writer Akbar Ganji was speaking to an audience of about 80 people Wednesday night, when a good-looking, older fellow in a white windbreaker started to ask something from the back of the room. The question, delivered thoughtfully and without pause, concerned the fierce, saber-rattling rhetoric of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Suddenly, Ganji's interpreter went ashen-faced. "My god!" she said aloud. "Is that Warren Beatty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dissident Goes to Hollywood | 8/10/2006 | See Source »

...long run, the failure to find a meaningful deterrent for North Korean provocations may mean Kim will become bolder in his stunts, which are geared to extort maximum aid from the countries threatened by his saber rattling. Jing Huang, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington says he thinks China's patience may be wearing thin. "This missile crisis will be the beginning of the end," Huang predicts. "It is forcing Beijing to see [that] the consequences of North Korea's actions are all bad for China." Says Green: "I think China is going to exert far more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Worst of Friends | 7/17/2006 | See Source »

...President has always equated Kim's nuclear saber rattling with blackmail, and a face-to-face engagement would seem tantamount to caving in. But when Bush entered the Oval Office, North Korea had two nuclear warheads; now the CIA estimates that Pyongyang has enough plutonium to make as many as eight and is hard at work on the technology that would deliver them to American shores. North Korea is slowly but surely building its nuclear capability, making the world steadily less safe, and it's not clear what anyone can do about it without trying something entirely different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Curb North Korea | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

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