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...Please don't allow the allegations against me to taint this good and honest man."- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, during a Dec. 30 press conference announcing Burris as his pick to fill Obama's seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roland Burris | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...left government under a good standing, and this is not a way to re-enter it."- Jim Durkin, Republican spokesman on the Illinois House impeachment panel, www.chicagobreakingnews.com, Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roland Burris | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...Faced with these challenges and challenged with these crises, it is incomprehensible that the people of the great state of Illinois will enter the 111th Congress shorthanded."- on the possibility that U.S. Senate Democrats would not seat him, press conference, Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roland Burris | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...Hamas' political control of Gaza or even to eliminate the movement's capacity to fire rockets into Israel. Israel's objective is to force Hamas to stop all attacks on Israel from Gaza. Or, to put it another way, to restore the cease-fire Hamas abandoned on Dec. 19, on terms more acceptable to Israel. Polls taken on the first day of the bombing showed that while 81% of Israelis supported the military campaign, only 6% believed it would finally end Hamas rocket fire. (See pictures of Israel's deadly assault on Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Versus Hamas: How to Shape a Cease-Fire | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...Dec. 27, a new sound filled the azure Mediterranean sky: the rolling boom of Israeli bombs and missiles slamming into Gaza. Many Israelis climbed the low, green hills outside the city of Sderot and cheered while watching black pillars of smoke rise over Gaza as a wave of 64 Israeli jet fighters struck again and again. It meant that Israel's leaders were hitting back at the Gaza militants who had rained rockets on the communities of southern Israel even weeks before Dec. 19, when an Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas officially ended. (See pictures of Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Gaza | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

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