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...President admits that the Cabinet cleaning has not been easy. Addressing a conference of military commanders, she noted that the shake-up "involved men who were loyal and devoted friends of my late husband's. They served me well. But the call of national unity required me to remove them." She continued, "I tell you this, for you too have had friends that duty required you to change. I tell you this because you, more than anyone else, understand that duty and country must come first, for the soldier as well as for the commander in chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Anxiety on the Eve of a Cease-Fire | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Rahman, and Hasina, 59, daughter of Bangladesh's first President, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was also murdered. Hasina believes Zia's husband knew of the plot to kill her father. Six years ago, on a visit to Dhaka, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tried to get the two to shake hands, but neither could bring herself even to look at the other. At a service for Armed Forces Day two months ago, the two women sat on a dais with 14 chairs between them. "God forbid that they should talk and work through some issues," says Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Down | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...feel numb. And I know you wouldn't approve of that. All your life you have struggled to encourage both Turks and Armenians to shake off the mutual numbness in their hearts so that they can start feeling each other's emotions and hearing each other's words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ode to a Murdered Turkish Editor | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...have a choice: you can cling to the Hard Problem, or you can shake your head in wonder and dismiss it. We've learned to do this before: it still seems as if the sun goes around the earth, but we know better. It's not all that hard, actually, now that we've made so much progress on the Easy Problems. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: A Clever Robot | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...satisfying is an early turn in an Istanbul night club by Bollywood bombshell Mallika Sherawat. For her writhing, shimmying moment in the spotlight (she's out of the picture before the opening credits), Sherawat brings a visceral enlightenment to Guru in a dance number where she really gets to shake her bodhi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bollywood's New Guru | 1/16/2007 | See Source »

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