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...must strengthen the moderate paradigm and say that our Islam stands for tolerance, dynamism and freedom of expression," says Zuhairi Misrawi, a researcher with the Indonesian Society for Pesantren and Community Development in Jakarta. "But is that what the majority of Indonesian people want? It's becoming harder to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Call to Prayer | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...colorful spires of Red Square and the dazzling neon of Tverskaya shopping district, it's just another of the city's many renovation projects surrounded by barbed wire and covered with a thick layer of dust. But beneath rickety scaffolding, the building's towering columns and gilded fixtures tell a different story. Under renovation since 2005, this is the Bolshoi Theater, home of the fabled 231-year-old Bolshoi Ballet Company. From his cozy office in the Bolshoi's labyrinthine headquarters across the square, artistic director Alexei Ratmansky can see the theater site through a window. "The general atmosphere here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retaking Center Stage | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

That was the theory. Instead, Iraq today is exporting less oil than it did under Saddam Hussein. And instead of offering the Saudis a model, Iraq has offered their rulers an alibi. Demand democracy, they can tell their restless subjects, and you'll get chaos instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil We Know | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...himself in front of a nightclub next to the American embassy in Tel Aviv, killing three. A second bomber's device failed to go off. Perhaps more alarmingly, it turns out one of the bombers had worked at Heathrow Airport as a security guard. Only the British authorities can tell us whether he had the capacity to slip a bomb on an American airplane - or help us stop the next British suicide bomber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Europe in the War on Terror | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...years of a president who is incapable of admitting he is wrong, incapable of admitting a mistake," said John Edwards in his short speech. "It's time for a different kind of leadership. We need a leader who will be open and honest with the American people, who will tell the truth when they make a mistake and take responsibility." In case anyone missed the swipe at Senator Clinton's refusal to apologize and say she was wrong to vote for the war, the former North Carolina Senator answered a question about whether Clinton has backpedaled enough from her vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Negative in Nevada | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

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