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...assumes that installing cronies everywhere and undertaking occasional idiosyncratic actions will keep him permanently installed. The spying and confusing actions are carefully calculated to indicate to his subordinates that no one could do his job as well as he can, while sparing him the law’s wrath...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Uneasy Lies the Leader’s Crown | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

...commander says the rift with Abbas is unmendable. Although Hamas has agreed to halt its campaign of suicide bombings in Israel, the commander says, "I'm afraid that [pressures from the] Americans and Israelis are pushing radicals inside Hamas to resume such attacks." And if that happens, Israel's wrath against the Palestinians would surely be even more terrible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza: No Doves in Sight | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...political chill has put some of the world's biggest energy projects in an unexpected deep freeze. In the decade since they [an error occurred while processing this directive] negotiated separate drilling agreements with Russian authorities, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have gone way over budget and incurred the wrath of leading environmental groups. But last week, the two oil majors faced their biggest challenge so far: a Kremlin backlash that could hold up or even potentially derail their plans. Moscow revoked a key environmental license for Shell's $20 billion project, and took a tough line with Exxon over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frozen Assets | 9/24/2006 | See Source »

...cuckold, allowing his wife her affair and the money to subsidize her lover's needs. Mannix seems to have loved her in his fashion, and so long as Reeves treated her well, he remained quiescent. It is only after their affair ended and she became miserable, that Mannix's wrath was aroused and it becomes possible to imagine him dispatching hit men to avenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange Case of Superman | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

...Baton Rouge (25,000 to 30,000 of 300,000) and Birmingham (1,500 of 20,000), who have either returned to New Orleans to gone elsewhere. The report found that evacuation was an ever-evolving odyssey, as evacuees moved an average of 3.5 times after fleeing Katrina's wrath. Only Baton Rouge and Houston took in more people than Atlanta, with those cities and their new residents facing more dire circumstances. "I didn't go through living on a bridge and people pointing guns at me," says Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Evacuees: Who Fared Well and Who Didn't | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

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