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...military is keeping watch over some of the 22 venues - including the main Olympic stadium - for which the state is trying to find a permanent use. Maintenance and upkeep are estimated at about $100 million a year. "Who knows what they're planning to do with this," huffs a soldier guarding the main entrance to the Helliniko complex. Flyblown, empty arenas are not the only legacy of Athens' binge. There's the financial cost, too. The government spent $3 billion building and upgrading 36 venues for the Games and another $8 billion on infrastructure and security. Organizers dished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Back The Bid? | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

PROMISE A courageous soldier and hard drinker, "Fighting Joe" once openly mused about becoming a dictator, drawing a sarcastic rebuke from Lincoln

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All the President's Men | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...Marwan is already a battle-hardened insurgent, a jihadi foot soldier in Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's terrorist group, al-Qaeda in Iraq. Like the bulk of insurgents, he is a Sunni Muslim from the former ruling minority community. In his hometown, Fallujah, he is known for his ferociousness in battle and deep religiosity. Marwan asked his commander to consider him for a suicide mission last fall but had to wait until the beginning of April for his name to be put on the list of volunteers. "When he finally agreed," Marwan recalls, "it was the happiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Mind of an Iraqi Suicide Bomber | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...referred to Douglass's attack on his "tardy, hesitating, vacillating policy" and acknowledged that at times he might seem slow to act. But he denied wavering: "When I have once taken a position, I have [never] retreated from it." After hearing Douglass's complaints, Lincoln assured him that black soldiers would eventually receive the same pay as white soldiers, and he promised to sign any promotion for blacks that the Secretary of War recommended.He had already signed an order aimed at preventing Confederates from murdering blacks that stipulated that "for every soldier killed in violation of the laws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Great Divide | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...then headed east near the Costa Rican-Nicaraguan border. About 60 miles inland, the plane veered northeast toward the Nicaraguan garrison town of San Carlos. According to Nicaraguan accounts, as the craft dropped down to 2,500 ft. and prepared to discharge its cargo, a 19-year-old Sandinista soldier, José Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet-made ground-to-air missile launcher and fired. The lumbering aircraft shuddered when the rocket found its target, then spiraled earthward, trailing smoke. While the soldiers cheered and slapped one an other on the back, a parachute popped open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: Shot Out of the Sky | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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