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• Following Shaik's conviction, Zuma was accused of money-laundering and racketeering, stemming from a controversial $5 billion arms deal he brokered in 1999. Zuma denied any wrongdoing, and said the charges were politically motivated. A judge dismissed the case in 2008 due to a legal technicality, but the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Jacob Zuma, South Africa's New President | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

In response to "The Moment" on the killings in Binghamton, N.Y. [April 20]: I had always thought that the reason for the National Rifle Association's existence was to foster the right to bear arms. Now, after the latest massacres by killers with guns, I finally know the NRA's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

That's looking now to be a far likelier course of action than it seemed just a few weeks ago, meaning that our banking system may survive more or less intact. This seems like a terrible cop-out, until you consider that this financial crisis wasn't initiated by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hooray for Boring Banks | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

Vargas has yet to weigh in himself. He is said to be devastated by the horses' deaths, and was reportedly holding one in his arms and sobbing when it died on Sunday. But this is hardly the worst loss he's suffered. Some years ago, Vargas' 18-year old son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dead Polo Ponies and Their Millionaire Owner | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

On Sunday, just a week after Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari signed a provision allowing for the implementation of Islamic law in Malakand, Sufi Mohammad, the local religious leader who negotiated the accord (and who is father-in-law to the local Taliban leader), announced that he would not recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taliban Advance: Is Pakistan Nearing Collapse? | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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