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...main misconception about the book itself is that it was some sort of political tome. The book is a woman's story. I wanted to write it as though I was talking to my girlfriends, to tell a story not just of my 10 years in Downing Street but of the 50-year journey of a woman who comes from a relatively humble beginning in Liverpool and finds herself living for 10 years in one of the most famous addresses in the world, with this ringside seat on history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cherie Blair | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

Listen Joe, I need to tell you how much I envy you. I envy you because your adopted last name now symbolizes masculinity and patriotism rather than “beer belly.” I envy you because you can hunt animals and have a higher alcohol tolerance than I do. Mostly, I envy you because you thought Aaron Tippin’s “Drill Here Drill Now” was a great song, something I may never be able...

Author: By Rajarshi Banerjee | Title: Don’t Forget the Other Joe! | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...real issue here is that Sarah’s left you for Joe the Plumber. And that’s because she’s a maverick, and like all mavericks she’ll do exactly whatever the polls tell her to do. Palin winked at you and now she’s smiling at Joe the Plumber, but really they’re all just waiting for Joe the Banker to get better...

Author: By Rajarshi Banerjee | Title: Don’t Forget the Other Joe! | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

...friend in Europe. He was both frantic and furious. He had just been turned back at New York's JFK airport and sent home on the first flight. He missed his son's wedding - the son is an American citizen. The FBI at JFK was courteous but would only tell him he was on a terrorist list. Nothing the man could say helped. Was he on Maryland's list, now an undesirable alien and permanently excluded from the United States? Probably not, but in this era of secret evidence, who knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the State Police Fingers Terrorists | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

...What angers villagers is that the pollution is there for anyone to see. Le Thi Nung doesn't need a scientist in a lab coat to tell her that the river is full of poison. Her village in Dong Nai's district of Long Thanh once depended upon fishing and small farms. "After Vedan opened, the pollution killed all the fish so I had nothing to feed my seven children," she complains, adding that the factory brought few of the promised benefits, only cancers and stomach ailments. With no other options, Nung's 19-year-old daughter married a Taiwanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vietnam Cracks Down on Polluters | 10/17/2008 | See Source »

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