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U.S. officials in Baghdad had expected trouble all morning. At about 11 a.m., they evacuated the city's convention center, a three-story building inside the fortified Green Zone where officials hold daily briefings. Inside the convention center, American soldiers charged with guarding the building - which also houses the U.S...
At the moment the building was evacuated, TIME was mid-way through a meeting in the convention center with a U.S. Army civil affairs officer, Major Martha Boyd, who works on projects attached to Iraq's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Her telephone rang with an urgent call from...
After 9/11, a small group of politically appointed lawyers in various departments in the Administration maintained that the conventions, which ban the use of torture on prisoners of war and were signed by the U.S. in 1955, did not apply in a war against terrorists. Top officials agreed. In February...
Your item "Hold The Acceptance Speech?" explained how John Kerry might delay accepting the Democratic Convention's nomination for five weeks in order to raise more campaign funds [May 31]. I am glad he ultimately rejected the idea. I remember fondly the suspense and excitement of conventions decades ago in...
He was irked, though, to see Republican leadership after Nixon's resignation fall into the hands of Gerald Ford, who did not represent right-thinking conservatism. It was almost unheard of to challenge an incumbent President from one's own party, but in 1976 Reagan took the risk, losing at...