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...Tuesday Chin asked Sorkin if it was his "expectation that [Madoff] will plead guilty" at the hearing on Thursday. "That's a reasonable expectation," Sorkin replied. The judge then said he would decide at the hearing whether to accept the plea and whether to remand Madoff to jail pending sentencing in several months, setting the stage for Madoff's climactic court appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Deal for Madoff, As Victims Prepare to Face Him in Court | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...Postal Service duly obliged, mandating that all air carriers accept chicks when outside temperatures are between zero and 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Shortly thereafter, a Minnesota postal worker reported disposing of boxes of birds that had perished in 95-degree heat...

Author: By Lewis E. Bollard | Title: Chicks in the Mail | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...Afghanistan that the U.S. was losing, was greeted with some raised eyebrows in the region. However, his suggestion was welcomed by Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, who has been advocating a similar approach for some time. "This is approval of our previous stance, and we accept and praise it," Karzai said on Sunday. But Karzai's own exhortations to the Taliban to come to the negotiating table have always carried an air of desperation (in the context of the militants' steady advances across much of the country), while his authority doesn't extend much beyond the capital. And Karzai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking with the Taliban: Obama Draws Skepticism | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...should identify what are the limits of the concessions the government is willing to give," says Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, a former Finance Minister who is now running against Karzai for President. "Probably they will have some demands of their own, and we might have to be more accepting of those demands, like increased cultural conservatism. But if they say, 'We will not accept a leadership based on elections,' I am not sure we can accept that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking with the Taliban: Obama Draws Skepticism | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...former members of the Baath Party, which ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein. It was explicitly not offered to Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Saddam's former Vice President, who remains in hiding, nor to al-Douri's supporters. In any case, none of the Saddam loyalists has indicated they would accept al-Maliki's offer anyway. "The Baath and its men and fighters strongly reject dialogue with the collaborators, spies and traitors," the banned party said in a statement posted on its website, Al-Basrah.net. (See the life and death of Saddam Hussein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abu Ghraib Blast: A Return to the Bad Old Days in Iraq? | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

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