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While most viewers under the age of 30 will know Ray Charles for his dirge-like rendition of “America the Beautiful,” or for his shiny-suit stint in a series of Pepsi commercials, Charles’ history is anything but clean. It is certainly not the stuff of our morally-obsessed pop culture. Throughout the film, we see Charles smoke his first joint (which he got from a midget, by the way), sleep with countless women, become a heroin junkie, and systematically, one by one, alienate every person who ever gave a damn about...
...powerful mantra for the 21st century. Perhaps we could all be heroes if we practiced it. Veronica Daly Derryinver, Ireland I appreciated TIME's recognizing Nigeria's first female Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as a hero for her efforts to fix the country's chaotic finances and clean up corruption. But many Nigerians would also love to see tribute paid to people like Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria's most renowned human-rights lawyer and campaigner. Or the late Afro-beat band leader, saxophonist and political activist Fela Kuti, who sang about the ills of the government and the struggles...
...culturally. I've ordered the police and the attorney-general that any corruption cases once held up be started again. I've also asked that preventative steps be put in place at all levels of government and that my office, the vice-president, ministers and governors be seen as clean in order for them to eradicate corruption in their own offices. I've also asked that the same steps be taken at the provincial government level. I've also asked the attorney-general to take legal action against any banks that are unhealthy or where there are indications of corruption...
...parade of Kerry’s senate experience reads something like this: In 1994, Kerry was instrumental in finding the funds to put 100,000 police officers on the streets. In 1995, Kerry threw up legislative roadblocks to Republican attempts to undo much of the Clean Air Act. In 2000, Kerry co-wrote the legislation in a spending bill that provided funding for early childhood after-school programs, health care and parent education. In 2002, Kerry was one of the leading opponents against Bush’s plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The list goes...
...royal mess in Iraq will be a challenge for any president to clean up. After the horrific damage—in terms of infrastructure and human lives—the war has inflicted, we have reservations about the prospect for quick stabilization in the region. But Kerry’s plan to begin to turn chaos into order is, at the very least, a reasonable start. The internationalization of the burden is a necessary step that the Bush administration should have taken long ago, and we hope that efforts to train Iraqi security forces will be more whole-hearted than...