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...evidence. Nobody. And I can tell you there are many intelligence organizations in the Horn of Africa. This is a very volatile area, and understandably there are much such organizations, and none of them have come up with any evidence. The reason is very simple. We know how insurgencies succeed and how they fail. And we have experience of counter-insurgency, from when we were on the receiving end. The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished. We are not going to make that mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...black mayor in Ireland. But the Nigerian émigré is not just representative of the wave of immigration that has changed Ireland so deeply over the past decade. He is also a sign, he says, of how willing the Irish are to give people like him the opportunity to succeed. "There is no doubt Ireland is a land of a thousand welcomes," says Adebari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in the land of a thousand welcomes | 9/6/2007 | See Source »

...kids. I understand that. On the other hand, many of them reup," he said, arguing that reenlistment rates are high in Anbar. Would service members' concerns affect his decision about troop levels later this month? "The main factor that will affect my decision on troop levels is, can we succeed, what does it take to succeed?" Bush answered. "Because failure would lead to harm to America, is what I believe. As a matter of fact I'm certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Gets a New Kind of Iraq Briefing | 9/3/2007 | See Source »

Unlikely to succeed, at least if the elections are anything approaching free and fair. Musharraf faces not only the legal hassles of securing his nomination, but also his massive unpopularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Musharraf Fights for His Job | 8/28/2007 | See Source »

...group itself is as outdated as the rotary dial, according to Deborah Ancona, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and Henrik Bresman, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at INSEAD, who have written a book, X-Teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's What's on the Outside that Counts | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

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