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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama Administration should stop bailing out corporate disasters and abandon plans to move health care onto the backs of taxpayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advice from an Economist Who Saw 1929 | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...those concerns publicly. For some, it was more comfortable to remember the "old Mike," or "black Mike" - the one with the Afro, wide nose and plump cheeks, before he morphed into something resembling a gaunt white woman. Some sociologists may argue that our collective reluctance to demonize or abandon MJ at the height of his troubles was rooted in our inability to confront issues like child abuse and gender identity. But our loyalty stems from something else. First, his talent. Second, the arc of his biography struck a chord: his persistent struggle for respect and redemption - the comeback attempts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Jackson and the Black Experience | 6/27/2009 | See Source »

...like living a lie.' OSEL HITA TORRES, the boy identified by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of a Tibetan spiritual leader, on his decision to abandon the Buddhist order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...pushed Russia, a major trading partner of Iran's, to be ready to commit to sanctions on businesses unrelated to Iran's nuclear program - something Russia has resisted. In a secret letter in early February to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Obama wrote that the U.S. would abandon its plans for missile defense in Poland and the Czech Republic - which the U.S. has always justified by referring to an Iranian threat - if Russia would help bring Iran into compliance with its international nuclear obligations. Back home, Ross has persuaded Howard Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the U.S. Contain Iran's Nuclear Ambitions? | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...agency. A spate of kidnappings and murders have taken place in well-heeled neighborhoods. And even in the Lady Reading Hospital, where Zubair Khan and others injured were taken, doctors have been subject to threats. They now all wear the traditional shalwar kameez after the Taliban ordered them to abandon western clothing. (Read about the Taliban's culture war in Peshawar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peshawar: More and More, A City Under Siege | 6/11/2009 | See Source »

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