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...speak, Ebert made his first public appearance in nearly a year at the 2007 Ebertfest. "We spend too much time hiding illness," he wrote in a press release, issued just prior to the fest. "There is an assumption that I must always look the same. I hope to look better than I look now. But I'm not going to miss my Festival." TIME interviewed Ebert via e-mail...
...that the boards of the New York Times Co. and Yahoo! will not craft a merger. It would give the newspaper a larger audience and potentially better advertising income. It would allow Yahoo! to step away from using the Associated Press, the wire service whose news stories go out to thousands of media outlets around the world, making its product dumbed down for readers...
...Obama-Gates desire to buy fewer of them - while better equipping the U.S. to fight insurgencies and small wars like that in Afghanistan - sends an unmistakable (indeed, arguably historic) signal to Beijing: the U.S. strategy of hedging its bets over potential wars is being scaled back. Maybe we don't think you guys are a threat after...
...Zuma may surprise. Previous ANC administrations have failed to deliver on fighting inequality, violent crime, HIV/AIDS and reining in Robert Mugabe in neighboring Zimbabwe, creating the opportunity for Zuma to do better. A lessening in ANC support would ultimately be good for the health of South African democracy, which has lacked a strong opposition since the end of apartheid. Finally, ANC Presidents are a creature of their party rather than the electorate, as Mbeki's removal showed. Should Zuma underperform and disappoint his supporters, he might expect the same fate - and before his official term...
...voter says he once left this village because local corruption and mismanagement brought his company to the brink of bankruptcy, forcing him to look for work elsewhere. Now, he says, he's come back to Da'an in the hope his vote will help put the village on a better path forward. "Of course I'd come back home just to vote," he says, declining to give his name. "This is a big deal for my village. The leadership was so disappointing that it drove me away. I can't wait to see a new village leader who can help...