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...long shot, Mr. President. There are many obstacles. The most immediate is Muqtada al-Sadr, who must be removed from the equation. We cannot be the agency of his removal, of course, but Sadr has many enemies, including rivals within his own organization. The other Shi'ite parties will also be obstacles--and, of course, the Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani will need to be assuaged--but the strength of these groups has diminished as Sadr's power has increased in the past year, and it is possible they can be brought into the tent. The threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Baker Should Tell Bush | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Iraq's three main groups to establish powerful regions, each with its own government, substantial control over the oil resources in its territory and even its own regional army. Regional law supersedes federal law on almost all matters. The central government is so powerless that, under the constitution, it cannot even impose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case For Dividing Iraq | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

COLLINS: Yes. God's existence is either true or not. But calling it a scientific question implies that the tools of science can provide the answer. From my perspective, God cannot be completely contained within nature, and therefore God's existence is outside of science's ability to really weigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

DAWKINS: My mind is not closed, as you have occasionally suggested, Francis. My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about, nor can you, nor can anybody else. What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up. When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I thought were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...eschew the plain. In one typical exchange here, 38 spoken words out of 39 are just one syllable long (the exception is "cannot"). In a later story, 37 straight words last one syllable each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Write A Short Story | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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