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All that, and patience. Next year marks the 30th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which had the unwitting effect of yoking Pakistan's fortunes to those of the U.S. Do not be surprised if--even with skillful diplomacy, generous aid and appropriate military assistance--it takes another generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Central Front | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

That lesson was taken to heart by the extraordinarily skillful foreign-policy team around President George H.W. Bush, which was convinced that it was dangerous to rub Moscow's nose in its own failure. As Western policy shifted in the Clinton years toward doing more to protect those who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost of NATO's Good Intentions | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

By the fourth round, the Chinese had found their Olympic groove and never faltered from that moment onward. On the vault, Li Xiaopeng scored a mindboggling 16.775, the highest score of the competition. Indeed, the Chinese ended up earning the highest scores on all apparatuses except floor. The Japanese tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Gymnasts Finally Reign Supreme | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

You can't say that Spain and Germany made compelling cases for their appearances this Sunday in the Euro 2008 finals. You just have to give them credit for overcoming the obstacles that stood in their way. For Germany, a 3-2 winner over an undermanned, overachieving Turkish side, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro 2008: The Final Countdown | 6/28/2008 | See Source »

A typical abridged audio book runs about six hours. That may sound like an eternity, but it's actually an abbreviation: books take a long time to read aloud, so the audio versions rarely squeeze in more than a third or so of the unabridged book. In many cases, if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barbara Walters' Memoir: The No-Sex Edition | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

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