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...cold." As the election approaches, the political temperature is being stoked by the prospect of the largest parties being forced to govern in coalition. Rada Speaker Lytvyn dismisses talk of an ou-pr pairing. "I don't see these two entering a coalition," he says. "But should I prove wrong, I can only say that there are no principles left in politics any more." His reaction was echoed by Tymoshenko in a TV interview last week. "If they go for it, what was the revolution all about, then?" she asked. Failure to establish a workable government won't just call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Days in Ukraine | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified by the spectral invaders, blaming them for every accident, including those dead animals. "They were a back door by which all blame could be neatly sidestepped," writes Shah of the jinns. "Any blunder - from chopping down the wrong tree to setting fire to the lawn mower - could be instantly brushed aside." So Shah learned to deal with jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, when the usual remedies failed, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Land of Jinns | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...Major General Geoffrey Miller--commandant at Guantánamo Bay and a top adviser on interrogations at Abu Ghraib-- do wrong? No, says a new report by Lieut. General Stanley Green, the Army Inspector General (IG), that TIME obtained last week. An investigation recommended last summer that Miller be reprimanded for poor oversight of a high-value prisoner at Gitmo. But Green told TIME that the evidence is not there to back charges against Miller of dereliction and lying to Congress about his role in the scandal. The report concludes that at Gitmo Miller was unaware a canine had been used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gitmo Goat or Hero? | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

They were in the wrong place, but Steve Webb's archaeology class decided to stay anyway. A colleague had mistakenly taken them to a site they'd never visited before, a nondescript-looking claypan lost among the pale dunes in the Willandra Lakes region of far western New South Wales. Luckily, Webb thought it would still make good practice fieldwork for his Aboriginal students after a week of classes in the nearby town of Mildura. He was walking behind one of them, 26-year-old Mary Pappin Jr., when she called out that she'd seen something. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of the Dunes | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...skeptical that the fraud she pointed out to him could be problematic, she testified. And after their meeting, Lay continued to tell investors, analysts and employees that everything was fine at Enron. "It was just assumed that I was wrong," Watkins said. "It was a blatant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Enron Whistleblower's Day in Court | 3/17/2006 | See Source »

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