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...small." It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe - that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year. But it was laughable as well. The Pennsylvania primary had been a six-week exercise in diminution, with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - and Bill Clinton too - losing altitude and esteem on an almost daily basis. Even as he spoke, the former President was in the midst of a tiny, self-inflicted absurdity, having claimed in a radio interview that the Obama campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Democrats | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

Last November, Bowman played at a festival in Lahore during Pakistan's six-week state of emergency. He knew better than to tackle either President Pervez Musharraf or the Prophet Muhammad onstage, but found his show resonated with an audience used to seeing their countrymen locked up under antiterror laws. Back in Ireland, he's rankled a few Christian conservatives who have picketed his show, calling it blasphemous. One elected official of Northern Ireland's loyalist Democratic Unionist Party, angered by the comparison between Jesus' martyrdom and al-Qaeda suicide bombers, urged a boycott; and in a heated BBC radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy of Terrors | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

Campaign organizer Abe Dyk assured the crowd that the six-week run-up to the primary will be a full-bore, no-excuses campaign. "We will be Iowa on steroids ... everything we do in a traditional campaign after Labor Day we're going to start doing after March 4," the date of primaries in Ohio and Texas, he told the cheering crowd of activists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Primary to End All Primaries? | 3/5/2008 | See Source »

...Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” a first for Broadway, which began performances February 12. Thanks to the high-profile staging and an A-list cast including James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad, the production has already sold out its six-week engagement. But as far as what the production may mean for minority actors, Lester says, “To cast James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad is not political, it’s big box office.”“It’s really interesting that...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Staging the Race Debate | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...ousted in a 1999 coup) and Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari is a nice idea, but it may be too late. Zardari and Sharif have publicly asked Musharraf to resign. They have the support of Pakistanis, still angry over Musharraf's recent dismissal of the Supreme Court and six-week suspension of the constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Memo | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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