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...Gabon to Nigeria to Guinea, it is the same story: a hundred cronies surround a dictator who connives with oil companies to amass wealth while millions live in dire poverty. Western governments and their oil companies must step in and stop the looting! Just as Western banks do not accept al-Qaeda's money, so too should they refuse African dictators' stolen money. Those funds should be used to emancipate African children and help them grow up like other children. Moses Nsubuga, DUBLIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil's Curse | 6/26/2007 | See Source »

...added that some people have not received leaves of absences but have instead had to resign from their jobs in order to accept fellowships...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Nieman Fellow Apps Drop | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

...Beyond that, the U.S. has had trouble finding countries willing to accept some 75 prisoners that it wants to release, and is grappling with how it will try roughly 80 others in if they are brought into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Endgame for Guantanamo? | 6/22/2007 | See Source »

Scheim and Davis readily accept this Oswald as an impostor. But both conveniently tend to consider other alleged sightings of Oswald as genuine: sitting in a New Orleans bar with an associate of mobster Marcello's and taking money under the table; traveling with another Marcello crony three months before the assassination. In this selective reasoning, neither author seems to consider that some or all of the witnesses could be mistaken, their memories swayed by the TV images of the assassin's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: Did the Mob Kill J.F.K.? | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...Mafia had a strong motive to kill the President, where are the connections to Oswald, the executioner, and Ruby, the silencer? They are almost too numerous to count, if you accept the claims of Scheim, a manager of computerized information at the National Institutes of Health. He seems to have amassed every reference ever printed about the J.F.K. assassination figures and mobsters, then woven these threads to fit a Mafia-hit theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: Did the Mob Kill J.F.K.? | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

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