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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, your longtime foe, stepped down yesterday. What does this mean for Afghanistan? Arrivals and departures don't matter much - unless we correct the institutions, unless we change the mind-sets that follow an old policy. For example, if Pakistan is using radicalism as a tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of Afghanistan | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

This is what he preaches: the seemingly unlimited power of people who are willing to trust, cooperate and compromise. Bringing people together for action, what he calls "organizing," holds "the promise of redemption." And without exactly saying it, Obama offers himself as the embodiment of his own message, the one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Faces of Barack Obama | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

Musharraf found himself juggling political allies in search of a patina of legitimacy and manipulating elections as popular opinion turned against him, largely on the basis of his alliance with Washington. Moreover, the new reality in Afghanistan prompted the Pakistani security forces to begin playing what was essentially a double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Musharraf Failed | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

China's women have the legacy of Karl Marx to thank for their remarkable performance. Chairman Mao liked to say that "women hold up half the sky," and when the country began its state-sponsored project in the 1990s to cultivate gold-medal athletes, women were given more than equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Women Spark a Gold Rush | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

Others feel the federal appeals court should have gone even further and reprimanded the Administration for treating Posada like an immigration scofflaw instead of a man widely considered an international terrorist. "I worry that these cases... have the tendency to make very bad law," says Miami attorney and immigration law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When America's Ally is a Terrorist | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

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