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...Obama Goes to Europe I enjoyed Karen Tumulty's article and overseas interview with Barack Obama [Aug. 4]. As a military man who spent some 35 years on active duty or working as a contractor for the U.S. Air Force, I appreciated Senator Obama's comment on our military mission: "We still have the most valuable possible resource to get the job done - and that's our men and women in uniform." That statement makes him qualified in my mind to be the Commander in Chief. Sid Howard, Midwest City, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

...Ford Escape hybrid, I make the mistake of mentioning that when I interviewed Ted Nugent, he didn't know the Ten Commandments. For the next five minutes, Franken doesn't talk about anything except trying to name all the commandments. (He succeeds.) Then I make an even stupider comment about how much harder it would be to name all the constitutional amendments, and Franken is off again. "Holy mackerel," he says after rattling off the first three. "Come on, I know them! Let's do it! Let's do it together!" Luckily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Funny | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

With no substantive comment from either side after three weeks of negotiation, the progress of power-sharing talks between the leader of the Zimbabwean regime, Robert Mugabe, and his opposition rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, remain a mystery. But some hint of the atmosphere in which they are being conducted emerged Thursday when Zimbabwean security forces briefly detained Tsvangirai, his deputy - Movement for Democratic Change (M.D.C.) general secretary Tendai Biti - and a third M.D.C. official. The three were held at Harare airport and, after their passports were confiscated, prevented from leaving the country to attend a weekend summit of southern African leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe Rival Held at Airport | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

Still in the honeymoon period of my time in Barcelona, I made a comment to my roommate after dinner about how “European” that experience was. Her response? “I don’t know, I mean, everyone was speaking English...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak | Title: Salud! | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

There it was. Though not exactly accurate (I’m pretty sure speaking English and having a “European experience” are not mutually exclusive), her comment raised the ever-contentious issue of what language my peers and I would speak to each other throughout our five weeks in Espa?...

Author: By Victoria B. Kabak | Title: Salud! | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

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