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...deeply convinced this court is representing itself falsely as a court of the international community, when it is in fact a court of NATO whose aim is to liquidate me," said Karadzic, dressed in a dark suit, red tie and reading glasses, and with a calm, confident and even humorous air. "I have stopped using a false name and I think all parties should do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Not Guilty" Plea Entered for Karadzic | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...Driving home his personal biography, of course, is a central aim of the convention that Obama will finally join on Wednesday. Obama says his aim there is twofold. "I want to make the choice between myself and John McCain as clear as possible. I don't want people to be confused," he says. "And I also hope that the convention conveys who I am. You know, during the course of a 19-month campaign, you're on the television screen, you're in big auditoriums, but sometimes who you are may get lost. And I want people to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Slow March to Denver | 8/26/2008 | See Source »

...Hamlet 2 make it seem like a wild anarchic satire. It is nothing of the sort. It's a standard-issue parody of the inspirational-teacher movies that bloomed in the '90s (with Mr. Holland's Opus and Dangerous Minds) and show no signs of going away. Satire's aim is to cleanse by annihilating; that's what Dr. Strangelove and other black comedies of the '60s did. But genuine satire is hard to find on the big screen these days, or any day, because its strident moralist tone tends to alienate audiences. In the definition of the form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hamlet 2: The First One Was Better | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...conservative group Accuracy in Media (AIM) is eager to paint the radical picture. In press releases and website articles, AIM calls Davis "Obama's Communist Mentor," although by the time they met, Davis had been out of politics for decades, and "mentor" may exaggerate his role in the young man's life. Still, it's clear that Obama did seek advice from the old man and that what he got was undiluted. "You're not going to college to get educated. You're going there to get trained," Davis once warned Obama. "They'll train you so good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Faces of Barack Obama | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...aim of the site is just to push out information," Currier said. "Everyone is so different; every situation is so different...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School To Help Build Wikipedia for Medicine | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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