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...truth is that some of these factors actually matter, and some do not. Every wedding is haunted by that axiom, "Half of all marriages end in divorce." But it's not a random coin flip. At the time of a couple's wedding, there are factors already present that can raise the odds of divorce to as high as 70%, or lower it to nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will This Marriage Last? | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...That may not be far from the truth. The most bruising blow today to the Bush Administration's approach to the war on terror was not simply the Court's decision that the special military tribunals the White House had designed were illegal. It was how dramatically the decision seems to dial back the clock to pre-9/11 legal thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's War Powers: How Much of a Setback? | 6/29/2006 | See Source »

...sometimes say you're poor? I am poor not in material things but in the truth. I've been called a thief, the biggest ever ... [Philippine officials] think they have taken everything away from me, including my shoes. But actually that's my biggest defense: when they opened my closet, they found shoes instead of skeletons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I've Been Called a Thief" | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

...sometimes say you're poor? I am poor not in material things but in the truth. I've been called a thief?the biggest ever ... The problem with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. I had to wear jewelry then, but all that was taken away, confiscated by the government. They think they have taken everything away from me, including my shoes. But actually that's my biggest defense: when they opened my closet, they found shoes instead of skeletons. They've listed my name in the dictionary?"Imeldific" is used to mean ostentatious extravagance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions: Imelda Marcos | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

...truth, the system's true origins do go back at least several more years. As a young lieutenant colonel in 1919, Dwight Eisenhower volunteered to act as an observer on the U.S. Army's first motorized transcontinental convoy. But the 62-day Washington-to-San Francisco trek left him appalled. On the often unpaved, poorly maintained roads that comprised their route, trucks became stuck in mud, disappeared into clouds of dust, and slid on ice; on occasion, they even crashed through the beds of creaky wooden bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Interstates Turn 50 | 6/26/2006 | See Source »

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