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...perfect feel for his machine. Sacrifice--in a captain who would trade himself for the sake of his crew. Persistence--in the singer who knew from adolescence that this was what she wanted and would allow no humiliation to deter her. These are, not by accident, the qualities Barack Obama, national life coach, regularly exalts. He commends the public for its patience, which convinces me that he has read the parenting books that instruct us to pre-emptively praise our children for the qualities we want them to develop. Any real recovery will require an "extraordinary sense of responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-It-Yourself Heroes | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

...find his next trip to the U.S. dogged by airplanes overhead trailing banners with images of aborted fetuses. O.K., that's a bit of hyperbole. But while several prominent conservative Catholics in this country are apoplectic over the University of Notre Dame's invitation of the pro-choice Barack Obama to give the school's commencement address on May 17, the Vatican has stayed completely silent on the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Stand in Obama's Notre Dame Controversy | 5/16/2009 | See Source »

...likes of al-Qaeda and other extremists were still dangerous, they were in fact small hard-line groups. The vast Muslim world was ready for a more respectful and sympathetic approach from a saner US government. How else can one interpret the joyous scenes that followed the election of Barack Obama in most Islamic countries. It was astonishing to hear of young students running around the campus of the University of Indonesia, shouting “We have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

Obama, President Barack •first name of rises from #12,535 to #2,409 on annual list of most popular baby names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Happened This Week!: The News Index | 5/15/2009 | See Source »

...region on the Afghan border, security forces have ceded control to the militants. Outlawed sectarian groups are gaining a foothold in Punjab province. And in the financial capital of Karachi, where Pakistani Taliban insurgents raise funds, ethnic clashes claimed more than 30 lives last month. When U.S. President Barack Obama commented during an April news conference that the Pakistani government did not "seem to have the capacity to deliver basic services - schools, health care, rule of law, a judicial system that works for the majority of the people," the nation erupted in fury, and effigies of Obama were burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pakistan Failed Itself | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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