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...Barack Obama has never hidden his passion for sports, whether it be opining on the shortcomings of the college football Bowl Championship Series or defending his picks for the NCAA college basketball tournament. So perhaps it should have come as no surprise that in announcing his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court, the President singled out the federal appeals court judge's landmark 1995 ruling that effectively ended the 232-day baseball strike. "Some say that Judge Sotomayor saved baseball," Obama said on Tuesday. That may be an exaggeration, of course, but there are many baseball observers...
...From now on, will any issue of TIME that does not have Barack Obama on the cover be a collector's item? J.-Alice Hofler, Sydney, Australia...
...first 100 days, President Barack Obama has had to address torture, pirates, rising unemployment, trouble in the auto industry and corruption on Wall Street [May 4]. Yet at last I have seen Americans begin to hope for a stronger America. Congratulations, Mr. President, for giving Americans something they badly lacked. Anthony P. Johnson, PHILADELPHIA...
...Inaugural address, Barack Obama summoned Americans to a "new era of responsibility" and challenged us to end the politics of "standing pat ... and putting off unpleasant decisions." It could have happened. If there was ever a President sitting on a high enough mountain of political capital to lead the country through a series of very painful but necessary political decisions, it is Obama. But sadly, that new era has so far been a promise unfulfilled. The Obama Administration's strategy has been no more than an effective execution of politics as usual, wrapped in more, not less, of the intellectually...
...said the blast showed that "both the explosive power and technical control have increased," and the intelligence source didn't disagree with that assessment. The test came less than two months after North Korea launched a long-range missile into the Pacific on the same day that U.S. President Barack Obama was making a lofty speech in Prague calling on the world to move toward eliminating all nuclear weapons. Monday's test might be considered Part 2 of Pyongyang's dismissive response to that idea. (See pictures of Obama in Europe...