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...begins her campaign for re-election this year, Hillary Rodham Clinton is laying all the necessary predicates for a possible run for the White House in 2008. In part to deflect the attacks of Hillary haters around the country, she has teamed with Republicans who once spat out her name like a curse. As a New York Senator, she has emerged as an outspoken booster of terrorism-preparedness programs at home and for more money for U.S. troops and better force protection in Iraq. And she is quietly constructing a nationwide fund-raising network capable of bringing in at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Hillary Join the Club? | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

...Instead, within days, the restaurant's landlord filed a lawsuit saying Del Posto had violated its lease during construction by building into unauthorized space and installing unapproved lights. The landlord has also claimed the restaurant lacked all its city permits. The spat seems a bit overblown-permitting delays?-but the New York Post reported last week that billionaire financier Henry Kravis, a Del Posto investor, is trying to negotiate a settlement with the landlord. For their part, Batali and Joseph Bastianich have told reporters they hope to be at their corner of 16th Street and Tenth Avenue for the duration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...last year relied upon imports for around one-third of the estimated 532 billion cu m of natural gas it used - with more than half of that piped in from Russia. And the dependence on non-E.U. supplies is expected to skyrocket in the years ahead. After a spat over gas provision between Russia and Ukraine temporarily upset Europe's gas supplies earlier this year, guaranteeing the availability and regularity of Europe's supplies became a priority. So for a firm like E.ON, already committed to keeping a lid on its reliance on Russian gas, teaming up with Endesa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Balance Of Power | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

More recently, Summers’ religion became an issue in his spat with former Harvard professor Cornel R. West ’74, who left the Afro-American studies department for Princeton in early...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Did Summers’ Faith Affect His Fall? | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...during Question Time, the P.M. mostly impassive before Labor's inquisitorial blitz about the scandal of AWB Ltd. and the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. And during those first two sitting weeks, when the P.M. had heard enough, arms and body would spring up - "Mr. Speaker!" - as he spat taunts across the chamber - "Mr. Speaker!" - hand thumping the dispatch box in a climax of ardor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leader of the Pack | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

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