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Considering that "socially responsible" and "green" funds have prospered in recent years by avoiding companies that sell tobacco or pollute, the surprise since 9/11 is that more money has not flowed into terror-free investing. Advocates argue it is a nonviolent way for Americans to confront terrorism and maybe even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rules of Disengagement | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

The wisdom of placing a building that will hold, at any one time, half a billion dollars' worth of diamonds on the border of a country with one of the world's highest violent-crime rates--South Africa--might be questionable. But the benefit to Botswana, through stable jobs in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gem of an Idea. | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

Ickes' superdelegate search had the feel of utter futility only a few weeks ago, when both math and momentum seemed to rule Clinton out of contention. But then came her 9-point win in Pennsylvania, highlighting Barack Obama's persistent weakness among Catholics, senior women, Hispanics and blue-collar workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Superdelegate Hunter | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

Throughout southern Iraq, members of the police and army are drawn largely from the Badr Organization, the chief rival of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. That's why it was no surprise, said Lieutenant Ryan Lawson, who is based in Hilla, that the Shi'ite town's Badr-dominated forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Measuring Iraq's Security Forces | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

The new mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, has done a fine job of cleaning up his image from that formed during his stint as the angry, square-jawed head of Italy's post-fascist youth movement in the early 1980s. Rather than scuffling in far-right-wing street protests, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rightist Elected as Rome Mayor | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

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