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...chairman of the joint chiefs, and ask them questions. My heart is with the people not at the top, my heart is with the people who are stuck in Iraq, and I feel that I owe them the best effort I can make as a reporter to explain what’s going...
...accumulated lines of thought and argument are indeed tantamount—however familiar the metaphor—to the threads of a complex tapestry.” The Harvard Law professor is now taking constitution-as-art one step further with a book that uses his own artwork to explain the nation’s founding charter...
...another main factor for so many unmarried households. But the divorce rate has not gone up in twenty years; in fact, it's been fairly stable at around 42 percent. Divorce did lead to a boom in single-parent households during the 1970s and 1980s, but that doesn't explain what has happened since then. Also keep in mind that getting divorced doesn't mean you are divorced-forever-after; about two-thirds of those who divorce will remarry, jumping back to the "married household" side of the white picket fence...
...Nation of Holocaust Deniers? The president's skepticism is, surprisingly, shared by many Iranians. But that doesn't mean they are anti-Israel. Let me explain...
...TIME: You've criticized the global response to Darfur. How do you explain the inaction? Tutu: In the past there was a kind of indifference. The response has tended not to be as quick when things happen in Africa as, say, Bosnia. When your complexion is swarthy, you tend to be at the bottom of the queue. But let's congratulate them this time. Kofi Annan and the Security Council acted far more quickly than they did with Rwanda...