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Yet despite her problems, Arroyo's future may be slightly more stable. An expansion of the value-added tax she pushed through last year is producing higher-than-expected revenues to help refill the country's depleted treasury. Her congressional supporters say they have the numbers to defeat the impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Answer to Arroyo's Prayers | 7/2/2006 | See Source »

Gilding the lily - casting the everyday and unexceptional in the most grandiose terms - has always been a weakness of boomers, who in their youth would sometimes compare Captain Marvel comic books to the Sistine Chapel or call Yoko Ono an artist. Overstatement has been George W. Bush's prime rhetorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Roosevelt Legacy Bush Shouldn't Carry On | 6/29/2006 | See Source »

Restraint in the face of a threat demonstrates moral courage and maturity, not weakness. The Western world professes to believe in democratic freedoms. People without democratic freedoms cherish the possibility of having them. Rather than letting our professed beliefs direct our actions, however, we are attempting to impose democratic freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

But Roosevelt's childhood weakness would turn out to be the provocation for the ferociously robust man he became. At about the time Theodore reached the end of boyhood, Thee, whom young T.R. adored, set off a crisis in their relationship. He insisted on making his favorite child into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Self-Made Man | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

Terrorism experts inside many governments have been on the lookout for reports of a solution to these engineering hurdles. Now, the CIA had found it. Mubtakkar means "invention" in Arabic, "the initiative" in Farsi. The device is a bit of both. It's a canister with two interior containers: sodium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Plot to Attack the Subway | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

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