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Therein lies the irony of Obama's downsizing effort: he needs to ratchet up conflicts at first - by sending more troops to Afghanistan and perhaps pushing new sanctions against Iran - to gain the diplomatic muscle to cut deals that don't look like abject American defeats. It's a risky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shrinks the War on Terrorism | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

To borrow a timely euphemism, athletes "transgress" so often that when it comes time to calculate the damage, the candor of the confession usually trumps the severity of the sin. Tiger Woods shanked his apology, waiting several excruciating days to state that he had "let his family down" and was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Down by a Tiger We Never Knew | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

That same success is the key to his resurrection. As much as we love tearing down our idols, we're suckers for tales of redemption, and for athletes, that story arc bends through the winner's circle. We never forgave Mark McGwire for the fiasco of his congressional testimony because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Down by a Tiger We Never Knew | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Are European societies anti-Islam? That's a question more people are asking in the wake of Switzerland's referendum to ban the building of minarets in the Alpine country. Almost 6 out of 10 Swiss voters supported the ban - charges of racism be damned. France passed a law in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Islamic Divide at Work: Advice for French Bosses | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Morales sailed to victory thanks largely to that indigenous cohort, which is concentrated in Bolivia's Western highlands and makes up about two-thirds of the country's population. Like Hugo Chávez, his left-wing counterpart in Venezuela, Morales has lavished unprecedented social programs on the poor, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morales' Big Win: Voters Ratify His Remaking of Bolivia | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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