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Turkey, for its part, has suspended its insistence that a solution to the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh - over which Armenia and Azerbaijan are in dispute - precede any deal. Turks and Azeris are ethnic kin and Azeri gas and oil travels to the West via Turkey. Azerbaijan scuppered negotiations between Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey and Armenia: Thaw in a Century-Old Feud? | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

The iPhone to be released in China this year will come without wi-fi communications capability, a concession made earlier to comply with Chinese regulations that restrict the technology to promote the domestic WAPI standard. Those rules have since been eased, and Apple and Unicom are now hurrying to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the iPhone Will Change the Chinese Phone Market | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

Some exiled Burmese dissidents have criticized Webb for lending legitimacy to the generals. But Webb did, at least, extract one concession from the junta. When the Senator's plane left Burma on Aug. 16, it carried an extra occupant: John Yettaw, the American sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: A Mission to Burma | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

Ironically, we were thinking of the future in 1980 too, despite the hard reality of our loss. Carter's fortunes had risen in the spring as people rallied behind him when 52 Americans were taken hostage in Iran. He would be doomed by the same crisis when it lasted into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Shrum Recalls Ted Kennedy's Greatest Speech | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

Afterward, Kennedy said to me, "Well, I think it did work." Well enough that by the fall of 1982, he had a better than 3-to-1 lead over Walter Mondale for the '84 Democratic nomination. But within weeks, he announced that he wasn't running - in part, I believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Shrum Recalls Ted Kennedy's Greatest Speech | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

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