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...American politicians would be in prison because they sell their votes," he told Belgian leader Jean-Luc Dehaene and, unwittingly, Canadian broadcaster CBC. In 1993, British PM John Major had finished a TV interview but tapes were still running when he vented his anger against three Euro-skeptic rebels in his Cabinet. He called them "bastards" and promised to "crucify them." French President Jacques Chirac heated up the old Anglo-Franco rivalry at a 2005 summit in Russia. Unaware that a French journalist still had a microphone switched on, Chirac joked with German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, That Mike's Open ... | 7/23/2006 | See Source »

...play upon people's fears. If there is a shred of possibility of a dirty-bomb attack, the media will report the possibility without knowing the odds. The media want to be fair to both sides, but they should attempt to get at reality. I'm a threat skeptic. The organizations we're facing now aren't military-like. They're much less organized. The training camps are virtual. I suspect they're much less likely to acquire and deliver WMD than al-Qaeda was in its heyday. I fear we lack public information to have this debate. And without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Forum: The Right to Know vs. National Security | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...neoconservatives have begun to renounce the decision to topple Saddam Hussein three years ago. William F. Buckley Jr., as close to a conservative icon as America has, recently wrote that "one can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed." George F. Will has been a moderate skeptic throughout. Neoconservative scholar Francis Fukuyama has just produced a book renouncing his previous support. The specter of Iraq teetering closer to civil war and disintegration has forced a reckoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I Got Wrong About the War | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...SKEPTIC MIGHT SAY THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT TO DO FIVE OR 10 YEARS AGO, BUT NOW YOU'VE GOT IRAQ AND A GENERAL PERCEPTION THAT AMERICA IS NOT A FRIEND TO MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD. I recognized going in that this is the work of decades, not of months or weeks. Bringing a cleric or a coach who perhaps was very anti-American to America, having them go home with perhaps a different view--that's not going to show up in a public-opinion poll in the next year. I told my staff this morning, "Sometimes I feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Karen Hughes | 2/12/2006 | See Source »

Garbo's centenary this September made lots of people remember that she was once considered a great actress. This set offers irrefutable proof: 10 features packed with enough glamour and bold genius to leave any skeptic awestruck. See her ignite the screen in Ernst Lubitsch's divine comedy Ninotchka or the Dumas melodrama Camille--made in 1939 and still the most astonishing display of star acting the movies ever recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Delights of Christmas | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

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