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So why couldn't the July 2005 bombings have been stopped? MI5 has broken its tradition of secrecy to explain the reasons on its website. The detailed exposition boils down to one issue: resources. In Britain today, the security services suspect 1,600 people of involvement in terrorism. They cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outnumbered | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Young middle-class Turks don't have much of a tradition of political protest. But nearly a million of them poured into the streets of Istanbul--some chanting "We don't want another Iran!"--to demonstrate against the country's Islamic-leaning but democratically elected government. The protest was part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Turkey | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

It is the Wolfowitz saga that has been grabbing all the headlines, of course. The Iraq-war architect was plucked from the Defense Department and deposited by President George W. Bush at the World Bank in 2005 (by tradition, the U.S. President picks the bank's chief). At the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World Bank's Real Problem | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Von Pierer was ultimately a defender of the old Siemens corporate tradition, however, always trying to balance the interests of shareholders and stakeholders, often at the expense of the former. He believed that synergies among the various divisions justified Siemens' cumbersome structure; well-performing businesses would offset weaknesses in other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Siemens Goes Mega | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Democrats brought this on themselves. Last July they added Nevada and South Carolina to the pre--Feb. 5 balloting in hopes of mixing Western and Southern diversity into the plain-vanilla tradition of Iowa and New Hampshire. Big states like California and New York had always felt they weren't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why States Want Early Primaries | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

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