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...heady days of the 1974 Portuguese revolution, he was a student leader of a Maoist group. As a young law professor, he launched himself on a career in the center-right Social Democratic Party, serving as Foreign Minister in the early 1990s. In 2002, on a platform of belt tightening and reform, he led his party out of opposition and into government, and soon joined Spain, then led by José María Aznar, in aligning Portugal with the U.S.-British coalition planning to oust Saddam Hussein from the leadership of Iraq. Under the primary sponsorship of British Prime...
...Texas Christian University by 4-3 scores to reach the Final Four. Though top-ranked Stanford ended Harvard’s unprecedented run with a 5-0 win, the squad returned home with a positive outlook. “Now that we have two great matches under our belt it’s definitely a boost for the entire season,” senior Eva Wang said. “We have so much more confidence for the rest of our matches.”STANFORD 5, HARVARD 0Ranked No. 1 in the nation, Stanford was the favorite going into...
...expect cowboy boots and Bible Belt philosophies to suddenly dominate Ottawa's gray corridors. The Conservative win heralds the arrival on the national stage of sophisticated, western-incubated thinking on trade, energy and international affairs, expertise that until now has been largely invisible to eastern Canadians. Albertans believe "it's better to experiment than to plan your way to perfection," says Dinning, who is the front runner in the race to succeed Premier Ralph Klein. "The new Conservative government attitude is rooted in an Alberta attitude that if you need to get something done, you don't Royal Commission...
Bill Ford is so committed to the environment that his office is decorated with biodegradable curtains and carpets. He sits at his uncle Edsel's old desk, near a photo of himself breaking boards to earn a black belt in Taekwondo. His favorite car: Mustang. He recently spoke with TIME's Dorinda Elliott and Joseph Szczesny. Excerpts...
...over the past few years, astronomers have realized that Pluto is just an especially big-and not even the biggest-of a giant swarm of icy bodies, known collectively as the Kuiper Belt, which orbits the Sun out beyond Neptune. If it's just one among many, it either has to be downgraded from its original status as a full-fledged planet, or at least a handful of other big Kuiper Belt objects have to be added to the list. But in any case, these lumps of ice haven't melted since the origin of the Solar System some...