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...while there might be a shortage of convincing Obama doppelgangers on TV, the same cannot be said of YouTube. The site boasts thousands of mimics, ranging from excruciatingly off-the-mark to the exceptionally spot-on. Take Iman Crossun, a 26-year-old Ohio native, who posted his first Obama impression three months ago. "I just thought it would be funny," Crossun told TIME from his new home in Los Angeles. His videos now draw hundreds of thousands of viewers, which prompted the aspiring actor to move to L.A. "As of yesterday, I finally have a manager," he said...
...European Commission president José Manuel Barroso has explicitly rejected suggestions that the economic crisis means the E.U. cannot afford to save energy and tackle climate change. "Climate action, energy security and economic growth can and must be pursued in a mutually supportive way," he said on Tuesday. "It would be a real mistake for Europe to give the signal that we are watering down our position after all these years leading the efforts for a global solution now that others, like the Americans, are coming closer to our position...
...about him from the Scriptures bears much resemblance to the truth, or whether the New Testament story is mostly a fabrication created by the early Church. Believers' fascination with relics might make for an interesting study in human nature, but - another discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls significance excepted - relics cannot shed much light on whether we can put any trust in the truth of the New Testament. It seems to me that the great vehemence with which the Vatican attacked Dan Brown's fictional work The DaVinci Code was not because of concern about his story, but because the idea...
...popular perception in the Middle East that the U.S. is fighting a war on Islam. She called for a strategy that was “mutually reinforcing” of the stability of Afghanistan and Pakistan. “A strategy for the stabilization of Afghanistan cannot lead to the destabilization of Pakistan,” she said...
...article in Foreign Affairs magazine, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates writes, "Over the long term, the United States cannot kill or capture its way to victory. Where possible, [military] operations should be subordinated to measures aimed at promoting better governance ... and efforts to address the grievances among the discontented, from whom the terrorists recruit." But so far, the U.S. is failing to do that. With the possibility that Indian threats of retaliation over last month's terror attacks on Mumbai could force Pakistan to move its military to the east from the Afghan border, where it is currently fighting...