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...long, international family planning assistance has been…the subject of a back-and-forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.” In this claim Obama is half-correct. He has indeed avoided a nuanced debate on this controversial policy, but his firm, agonistic posture on the issue is likely to trip up efforts to provide workable reproductive health services to women abroad and common ground on the question at home...

Author: By Roger G. Waite | Title: The Road Down from Mexico City | 2/8/2009 | See Source »

...gloves as the best British boxer of his generation and, arguably, the greatest British champ of all time. Calzaghe, who held the WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF super-middleweight belts during his 16-year career, said he had thought "long and hard" about retiring but insisted it was the correct decision. Trained by his father Enzo, Calazaghe captured his first world title in 1997, beating fellow Brit Chris Eubank, and went on to defend it 21 times straight. His victory over the hitherto undefeated American Jeff Lacy in March 2006 was hailed as career-defining, but Calzaghe has always maintained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Calzaghe | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...really don't know what the future holds. Like most Americans, I want to see Barack Obama adopt effective, correct principles and successfully lead our country. And so any discussion of future politics for me is, I think, premature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Mitt Romney on How Obama's Doing | 2/6/2009 | See Source »

...cultivate the northern industry in the West, and Lincoln only adopted the cause of immediate emancipation in 1862 due to military necessity. While it is difficult to say for sure that Egnal’s argument for the preeminence of economic factors in the outbreak of war is wholly correct, it is clear that the economic differences between the North and the South determined the political landscape of the period...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Egnal Revisits Civil War Theory | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Myths are luxuries that no nation can afford,” Egnal says, and this message could not be more correct or relevant. Marc Egnal is right. We cannot live with the history we want; we must accept all of its complications and difficulties, no matter how hard that...

Author: By Chris R. Kingston, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Egnal Revisits Civil War Theory | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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