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• Big names in US journalism launch Politico web site

  - 2007-01-22

  WASHINGTON AFP — Several big names in US journalism are part of a new Internet-focused news organization being launched that will focus exclusively on politics as the 2008 elections approach. The new venture formed by Allbritton Communications has a newspaper, The Politico, and a website, Politico.com, that have become the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, journalism, MARKETING, Time Magazine, Washington, Web

• US open in support of Syrian opposition groups

  - 2006-12-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — The United States said it supported Syrian opposition groups rivalling President Bashar al-Assad, but said such support was overt, and not a secret bid to undermine his government. New scrutiny of tense US-Syria relations came after Time magazine ran an exclusive report on its website, based on...

  Tags: Components, Government, HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, Syria, Time Magazine, U.S., U.S. Department of State, Washington

• Rove makes 5th appearance before grand jury

  - 2006-04-27

  WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, testified for the fifth time Wednesday before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity. Rove left the federal courthouse in Washington after spending three hours and made no statements. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald...

  Tags: Bush, CIA, Cooper, E-mail, Fitzgerald, Time Magazine, Washington

• US journalists face jail in CIA leak probe

  - 2005-07-06

  WASHINGTON AFP — Two top US reporters faced the imminent prospect of jail, as a bruising showdown between the government and the press headed to a climax in a Washington courtroom. Judith Miller of The New York Times and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper were due to learn their fate...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Government, Iraq, journalist, New York Times Co., SOFTWARE, Time Magazine, Washington

• US senate panel to name foreigners Iraq oil-for-food probe: report

  - 2005-05-08

  WASHINGTON AFP — The US Senate subcommittee looking into irregularities in the UN run oil-for-food program in Saddam Hussein's Iraq is reportedly ready to make public the names of foreigners they believe obtained illegal oil contracts. US officials have notified several embassies of the pending announcement, and the White...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, foreigner, Iraq, Moscow, president, SALES, subcommittee, Time Magazine, U.S. Senate, Washington

• US seeks negotiated settlement with Iraq insurgents: report

  - 2005-02-20

  WASHINGTON AFP — Pentagon officials have been in direct contact with representatives from Iraq's Sunni insurgency, to negotiate an end to ongoing attacks against against US troops there. Time quoted a senior insurgent negotiator who told the magazine that two meetings have already taken place, and also cited unnamed...

  Tags: Leadership, Pentagon, settlement, Time Magazine, Washington

• Officials fear "limousine bombs" at Bush inauguration: report

  - 2005-01-16

  WASHINGTON AFP — US officials working on security for President George W. Bush's second presidential inauguration fear terrorists could use limousines packed with propane gas canisters for an attack. Fears of an attack by VBIEDs -- vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices -- come from a 39-page Al-Qaeda document seized in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, attack, SECURITY, Time Magazine, Washington

• Assad interested in cooperating with US plans on Iraq border control

  - 2004-09-19

  WASHINGTON AFP — Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has expressed interest in cooperation with US military plans to secure the Iraqi-Syrian border in an effort to stop extremists fueling the insurgency in Iraq. Time magazine said senior US Pentagon and State Department officials met with Assad for several hours in...

  Tags: Iraq, Syria, Time Magazine, U.S. Department of State, Washington

• New York Times to fight subpoena on CIA leak story

  - 2004-08-13

  NEW YORK AFP ? A Washington grand jury, investigating the disclosure of the name of a CIA undercover agent, has summoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller, but the newspaper said it would fight the order. A Washington judge has already held Time magazine journalist Matthew Cooper in contempt...

  Tags: CIA, Government, journalist, New York Times Co., SOFTWARE, subpoena, Time Magazine, Washington

• "I'm a pacifist because I'm a violent son of a bitch." A profile of Stanley Hauerwas

  - 2003-04-01

  As a theological ethicist, Duke University Divinity School professor, and as a writer cruising through his forties and fifties, Stanley Hauerwas enjoyed the twin blessings of personal achievement and professional obscurity. Then, in 2001, the assessors of talent at Time magazine declared him "America's best theologian." Oprah Winfrey gave him...

  Tags: Christianity, church, Duke University, Jesus, Time Magazine, violence, Washington