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Abe has bigger problems than a gaffe-prone health minister. The rest of his cabinet is suddenly proving willful to the point of disloyalty, perhaps sensing the Prime Minister's weakness. Last month Abe had to rein in his defense minister twice after Fumio Kyuma first called the American invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Japan, a Revolution Over Childbearing | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

That sense of foreboding was most obvious in talks on whether the Doha Round of trade liberalization can be concluded before President Bush's "fasttrack" authority to do trade deals expires on June 30. (After that, any deal would be nibbled to death by powerful interest groups in Congress.) Trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Tell It On The Mountain | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

Matthew Fox had a hangover the morning after we met. Which made me feel a whole lot better. Hanging out with Fox, you see, can make you feel insecure in your masculinity. All that talk of horseback riding, surfing, chewing tobacco, playing wide receiver at Columbia University, growing up in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost's Sensitive Action Hero | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

Still, one shouldn't confuse Gates's apparent humility with weakness. He bristled when a reporter suggested that he had given the military a "blank check," saying directly that there was no such thing. He also gave a lengthy explanation of his support of U.S. Army Gen. George Casey to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates's Glasnost at the Pentagon? | 1/27/2007 | See Source »

This helps explain why so many of the world's civil wars today are taking place in Africa. It's not that Africans have some inherent weakness for internecine war. It's just that African populations are more likely to be poor, reliant on commodity exports, ethnically divided, young and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Reality of Civil War | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

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