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Apart from his fiery rhetoric, what makes Chavez's move seem more jarring is the fact that, until he came to power in 1999, Venezuela had been a trend-bucking oasis for Big Oil. Venezuela did nationalize its oil industry in 1976, but in the 1990s it had steadily reopened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chavez's Not-So-Radical Oil Move | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

For all their blustery bravura, these editorialists remain blindfolded by ideological fervor. The uninspiring rhetoric and trite phraseologies only testify to the difficulty of shaping party platitudes and talking points into coherent prose.

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: First, Do No Harm | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

Since taking power in 2002, the AKP has tried to distance itself from some of the Islamist rhetoric of its precursor party, and in government, it has done more for Turkey's European Union membership bid than any party before it. But its record is patchy. It also tried to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secularists Take To Turkey's Streets | 4/30/2007 | See Source »

Au revoir - and good riddance - to the fondness for fringe-party voting that has recently plagued French politics. That was the central message of the first round of the nation's presidential elections. In a stark contrast to 2002, when 4.8 million people voted for Jean-Marie Le Pen of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royal has the left and Sarkozy has the right | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

The more viable candidates had plenty of criticism to hurl, but almost all of it was directed at George Bush. Amongst themselves, there was only the occasional, indirect jab. Everyone knew that former North Carolina Senator John Edwards was referring to Illinois Senator Barack Obama when he said that on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The April 26 Democratic Debate | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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