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1、阅读二Table of Contents: November 16, 2009 EDITION: U.S. Vol. 174 No. 19 COVER The State of Hillary: A Mixed Record on the Job (The Well / Cover) She is the star of the Obama Cabinet and an international celebrity-and after nine months of staying out of the limelight, Hillary Clinton has arrived on the

2、 global stage. An intimate portrait of the diplomat and her world Behind the Scenes with Hillary Clinton TIME photographer Callie Shell travels with the Secretary of State on her diplomatic mission to Russia NATION A Tale of Two Priests (The Well / Religion) A pair of prelates face off over pro-choi

3、ce politicians in an unusually public dispute that threatens to split American Catholics ESSAY Moderation in Excess (Tuned In) Right and left wing get all the attention. But centrist media bias is just as real, and more common Rebirth of the Middle (Commentary) Conservatives get the most attention a

4、s the GOP revives. But moderates are rising too Lets Bail Out the Pot Dealers! (The Awesome Column) Californias medical dispensaries are so well run that dime baggers dont stand a chance WORLD Postcard from North Parsonsfield (Postcard: North Parsonsfield) In the Maine woods, activists from left and

5、 right vent their aggression on a novelists fake TVs. How The Beans of Egypt, Maine helped sprout a militia Tuna: The Hidden Cost of the Worlds Priciest Fish (The Well / World) The worldwide appetite for tuna is getting out of control, threatening the survival of one of the oceans most magnificent c

6、reatures Photos: Scenes from the Tuna Trade Tuna populations around the world are being fished more aggressively. Even General Santos, the so-called Tuna Capital of the Philippines, sashimi export and canneries have been hit by a downturn in the number of fish coming to port. The Meaning and Mythos

7、of Manny Pacquiao (The Well / Sports) His power and smarts have helped revive a sport and made him a hero in the Philippines. But as he thinks about politics, can Manny Pacquiao be more than the best boxer in the world? Photos: The Rise of Manny Pacquiao A look at the Filipino boxers career in and o

8、ut of the ring LETTERS Inbox (Inbox) ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Precious Review: Too Powerful for Tears (Movies) Thanks to an array of outstanding performances, Precious is one of the years most powerful films Agassi Unstrung (Books) In a new memoir, the tennis legend explains his tortured relationship wi

9、th the sport. He aces it And It Was Bought (Books) The Word according to R. Crumb proves a crossover hit Spirited Away (Movies) Jim Carrey is Scrooge in a timely version of A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol through Christmases Past The new animated feature is the latest adaptation of the beloved D

10、ickens classic a look at Ebenezer Scrooge through the ages Short List TIMES PICKS FOR THE WEEK BUSINESS The Dollar in Danger Much of the worried talk about our currency sounds like hyperbole. But what if it isnt? SOCIETY Parent Academies (Life / Education) How schools are helping moms and dads do mo

11、re for their kids Room Service and a Shovel: The Rise of Voluntourism (Life / Travel) Luxury hotels offer day trips to help vacationers connect with communities Call It Nasal Sway (Life / Social Norms) New studies on how clean smells can improve moral behavior The Odd Popularity of Mafia Wars (Life

12、/ Nerd World) More people play Mafia Wars than live in Australia. Or maybe its playing them PEOPLE 10 Questions for Ewan McGregor (10 Questions) The actor stars in the new film The Men Who Stare at Goats. Ewan McGregor will now take your questions NOTEBOOK Claude Lvi-Strauss (Briefing / Milestones)

13、The World (Briefing) 10 ESSENTIAL STORIES Brief History: Childrens Television (Briefing) Spotlight: Election Day (Briefing) Verbatim (Briefing) The Skimmer (Briefing) Book Review: Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore The Moment (Briefing) 11|4|09: Tehran Qian Xuesen (Briefing /

14、Milestones) COVER The State of Hillary: A Mixed Record on the Job By JOE KLEIN Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talks with aides before a joint press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow Callie Shell / Aurora for TIME It was Halloween night in Je

15、rusalem, and Benjamin Netanyahu came dressed as a peacemaker. Were prepared to start peace talks immediately, the notoriously reluctant Israeli Prime Minister proclaimed, with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton standing at his side, poker-faced. I think we should . get on it and get with it. It

16、 was a ploy, of course. The Palestinians were tangled up in themselves, yet again. They had elections looming, and their leader, Mahmoud Abbas, had to hang tough: he was demanding a total freeze to Israeli settlement-building on the West Bank which was precisely what the Obama Administration had pre

17、viously said it favored. Netanyahu was offering a partial freeze, not including new settlements in East Jerusalem, the desired capital of a future Palestinian state. This was a nonstarter for the Palestinians, but it had the holographic glow of a step forward. It was an unprecedented offer, Netanyah

18、u trumpeted, with the joy of a chess master springing a trap. It was a tough moment for Clinton, playing second fiddle at the Bibi-does-Gandhi show. President Barack Obama had softened his language on the settlements a few weeks earlier: instead of a total freeze, he had talked about Israeli restrai

19、nt in settlement-building. And now Clinton seemed to cement the Administrations retreat, agreeing that Netanyahus proposal was, indeed, unprecedented, even though the U.S. still favored a total freeze. The most important thing, she added, was for the parties to get to the table as quickly as possibl

20、e. The onus was back on the Palestinians and the Palestinians quickly expressed outrage at the Obama Administrations retreat. Their Arab neighbors soon joined in, causing Clinton to backtrack two days later, telling reporters the Israeli plan falls far short of U.S. expectations, although she still

21、insisted on calling it unprecedented, which was neither diplomatic nor wise. Suddenly the Obama Administration seemed wobbly on the Middle East; clearly, Clinton had been too bullish on Netanyahus proposal (which had been negotiated over months with Middle East envoy George Mitchell and was seen, pr

22、ivately, by the Americans as real progress). But the Administrations mission was to get the parties into peace talks without preconditions. The Israelis were now in favor of talks. The Palestinians were setting preconditions. And Clinton had violated an essential rule of her job: boring is almost al

23、ways better. Clintons Three Qualities For the past 40 years, the awkward Middle East press conference has helped define the job of Secretary of State. You go to Jerusalem or Ramallah; you stand there guardedly optimistic in public; in private, you try to move a comma, but the Israelis or Palestinian

24、s move a semicolon to block your comma. The result is almost always the same: gridlock. The breakthroughs, when they come, emanate from others. Walter Cronkite asks Anwar Sadat if hed be willing to go to Jerusalem . and Sadat, to everyones surprise, says yes. The Israelis and Palestinians hold secre

25、t meetings in Oslo and reach what appears to be a breakthrough theyre talking! which then becomes another dead end. The job of Secretary of State is more thankless than glamorous; in some ways, the Department of State, a noble antique, is still trying to come to terms with the invention of the telep

26、hone. In an era when Twitter haiku-messaging rules, diplomacy moves at the speed, and requires the nuanced complexity, of literature. Power has drifted from State to the National Security Council and the Pentagon, especially in wartime. Only a few of Clintons recent predecessors have distinguished t

27、hemselves. Henry Kissinger, a National Security Adviser who belatedly became Secretary of State, was Richard Nixons schizophrenic alter ego; George Shultz was a strong policy voice in the Reagan Administration; James Baker had clout because he was George H.W. Bushs best friend and a world-class deal

28、maker. Most of the others have been frustrated or forgettable. And yet this is Hillary Clinton were talking about the second most popular American in the world, an eternally compelling and supremely talented character, the subject of constant speculation, a walking headline. Her very presence in the

29、 job makes it crucial once more. It is a clich to say that by naming Clinton, Obama brought his most popular potential opponent into the tent. The conventional wisdom, too cynical by half, is that he thereby succeeded in neutering her, a theory bolstered by Clintons reticence during her first nine m

30、onths on the job, with special envoys like Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke doing the heavy lifting of diplomacy. But by naming Clinton, Obama also gave her great power, which cuts both ways: if she becomes dissatisfied with her role or the Administrations policies, she can become a torpedo aimed at t

31、he Oval Office. Colin Powell had similar power and a real gripe the Iraq war but never used it. Clinton has no such gripe, but as the Obama Administration settles in and policy differences begin to emerge among the key players, the Powell conundrum looms: How will Clinton choose to use her power? Ho

32、w will Obama react if and when she does? Traditionally, the Secretary of State is judged on his or her ability to formulate policy, negotiate deals and manage the striped-pants bureaucracy. Clinton has no history as a global strategist, although her performance in the 2008 campaign indicates that she is a bit more conservative than the President, more the foreign policy realist than the Wilsonian idealist. It is also too early to judge her skill as a manager or negotiator although her performance in Jerusalem indicates that she needs a few lessons in Middle E