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...Kennedy, and many of us lost all respect for the man long ago. Obama is making a mistake attaching himself to the Kennedy family. Sadly, Obama has poor judgment when it comes to his associates, as previously seen with his pastor and Antoin (Tony) Rezko. I hope Obama can accept the endorsement with no strings attached and win the nomination on his own merits. Susan Kachmar, Mondovi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...minutes later, dejected. That fight, the men said, was not for her. It was hard to tell if her tears sprang from frustration, or if they were caused by the stinging gas. "I am ready to give my life for Islam," she said. "I am praying to God to accept my martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter Of Faith | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...confidence to tell her, as she got ready for an important meeting with a touchy foreign leader, "Don't say anything for the first 30 minutes." Carrington turned down a face-saving ploy suggested by Whitelaw and Thatcher: the Foreign Secretary would offer his resignation, she would refuse to accept it, and he would then withdraw the proposal. Thus he would have done the honorable thing, but his skills would have been retained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Off on the High Seas | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...such opportunity was what is now called “Harvardwood 101,” an intersession trip that brings about 20 students to Los Angeles. In order to legally accept University funding for the program, Harvardwood applied to become a 501-c-3 non-profit corporation. Their approval in late 2002 transformed this group of people with similar interests into a organization with an official structure...

Author: By Asli A. Bashir and Charles R. Melvoin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvardwood 101 | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Administration had pushed for elections in places like the Palestinian territories where the essential components of democracy-a free press, a free economy, the rule of law-did not exist. Religious parties had won, or gained momentum, in most of these elections, and the U.S. had backtracked, refusing to accept the Hamas victory in the Palestinian territories, re-embracing autocrats like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. "Our indigenous democratic reformers," Khouri said, "are in retreat across the region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Persian Gulf Primary | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

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