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Three childhood memories, three moments in modern Islamic history, all hanging on the childish belief that foreign-born solutions will work for the region. The West has spent decades hoping for and plotting a neat trajectory of Middle Eastern modernization. But whether vested in peace treaties or the Shah's imported pomp, those plans have never quite worked out. Not a SOFA agreement, not the Shah's speechifying about modernization, not a party in desert tents stocked with marble baths and champagne could sustain Jimmy Carter's mirage of an Iran that was "an island of security in a troubled...
...clear indication now is that the Russians will sign on for a U.S. push toward tougher sanctions - if true, a major dividend for Obama's decision to shelve a missile-defense program in Eastern Europe. On Feb. 9, Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Presidential Security Council, said Iran's "actions ... raise doubts in other countries and those doubts are quite valid." This might leave Beijing in a place it can hardly want to be: isolated on the Security Council...
...suggestion that she might have hit him with a golf club. He owned up to all that he had done to her and others in the room. "He had all the key elements of an effective apology," says W. Timothy Coombs, Ph.D., a professor of crisis communication at Eastern Illinois University. "I think it is important he noted his future behavior was the true mark of an apology to his wife, his family [and] to his friends and fans." (See pictures of Elin Nordegren...
...Laden's last confirmed presence was at the siege of Tora Bora, in eastern Afghanistan, in December 2001, when the al-Qaeda chief and dozens of his men bribed Afghan mercenaries hired by U.S. special forces to let them escape, probably into the Pakistani mountains directly across the border. A Pakistani intelligence officer who was the main liaison with the Taliban before 9/11 tells TIME that he informed then President Pervez Musharraf that bin Laden, who was said to be gravely ill, most likely died several weeks after Tora Bora and was buried in a hastily dug, unmarked grave...
...original version of the Feb. 18 news article "Gordon Discusses Eastern European Integration" stated that the Harvard Kennedy School lecture drew about 50 audience members. In fact, the number of attendees was over...