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...questioning their legitimacy and insisting that elections can't be held as long as U.S. troops remain in the country. They may share some of the political goals and concerns of the insurgency, but they insist that a non-violent call for a boycott is a legitimate democratic protest tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Opponents: Insurgents, Boycotters, and Skeptics | 1/25/2005 | See Source »

...Iraq, and they are doing it now on Social Security." (As for voters, they don't seem to know what to make of the real situation: in the TIME poll, 45% agreed with Bush that the system faces a "crisis"; 44% said the claim was just a "scare tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Really A Crisis? | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...regime change to regime transformation," says Baik. "Pyongyang wants to see if this translates into policy." A less benign dynamic may be at work as well. Pyongyang has a long history of threatening to walk out of talks in order to extract concessions?and cash?from its opponents. The tactic has worked in the past; both Beijing and Washington have provided "aid" at critical junctures, and Seoul paid Pyongyang at least $500 million to agree to a summit meeting in 2000. "They want people to come back and implore them" to rejoin talks, says a Western diplomat. "That's standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk Isn't Cheap | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...West Bank settlements, but despite the best hopes of his Labor Party allies in his new government that this would simply be the start of the fulfillment of the Oslo vision, Sharon and those close to him have left no doubt that they see such a move as a tactic to avoid being pressed back onto the roadmap and the completion of Oslo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Palestinian Elections | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

BACK-DOOR DRAFT John Kerry's term for the military's tactic of extending reservists' service in Iraq. He lost the election, but the problem didn't go away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year In Buzzwords | 12/30/2004 | See Source »

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