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...CHOOSE THE PERSON OF THE WEEK: TIME.com's Person of the Week should not be viewed as an award or an endorsement. Each Friday we recognize the person who has had the most impact, for good or ill, on the news of the past seven days...
...rather confident," while his counterpart, Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) replied that "as of a few hours ago, they did not have the votes to pass this budget resolution." Head Democrat Tom Daschle said there was a "real possibility that we could bring down the size of this ill-advised...
...there are hawks and doves in Washington, too, and in the same way that China's leaders fear losing face by being cowed into doing Washington's bidding, U.S. leaders can ill afford to be seen as weak or irresolute when directly challenged by a foreign power. If Beijing's primary strategic objective right now is to curb U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, the spy-plane standoff may not have helped their case. Because even if the incident serves as a wake-up call on the dangers of even minor confrontations, Beijing's flouting of U.S. concerns over the boarding...
...knowing pundit said the conflict that first grabbed the international community's attention in Slovenia in June 1991 would roll inexorably eastward. In time, they said, it would run up against the uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear by diplomats and human rights monitors who made the same plea: we've got to do something...
...Person of the Week, a figure dominating the week's headlines, for good or ill. This from the magazine that has brought you the Man (now Person) of the Year since...