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...Deval Patrick, the fresh-faced black governor of Massachusetts, who called the arrest "every black man's nightmare." There was Vernon Jordan, noting that the event "tells us that the election of Barack Obama did not automatically erase racism." There was former Congressman Harold Ford, moderate to a fault, passionately insisting that once Sergeant James Crowley realized Gates had not broken into his own home, the officer should have said, "I'm sorry you're upset, sir. We're going to leave." And then, of course, there was the President of the United States, asserting that the Cambridge, Mass., police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Henry Louis Gates Affair: When Race Matters | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...need an internal struggle as well; the external one more than compensates. It makes perfect sense, then, that the government would prevent young Arabs from learning (in schools, at least) to consider the state’s creation a “catastrophe.” And who would fault Israel for doing what it can to prevent a sense of disloyalty from unraveling the very fabric of its existence from the inside...

Author: By James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Enemies of the State | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...Silverman's fault. For the first six months of his tenure, all the networks were hobbled by the writers' strike, meaning the winnowing process of creating and shooting pilots had to be dispensed with and the networks were forced to choose new shows on scripts alone. This year, the struggling economy hasn't helped matters. (See the worst business deals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Silverman Leaves NBC: Exit the No-Hit Hitmaker | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...Well, all of us look dull in comparison to Sarah Palin, so that's not really a fault of Sean Parnell's...Some people are weary of the drama." - Alaska Senate Majority Leader Johnny Ellis. (KTUU, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sean Parnell: Alaska's New Governor | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...standing up for Kurdish interests in Baghdad, such as seeing that the government delivers on its constitutional obligations to return Kirkuk and other disputed areas to Kurdish governance. With Iraq's Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian violence largely in check, the growing Kurdish-Arab discord has become the most worrisome fault line in the country. Massoud Barzani, head of the KRG, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki haven't spoken in over a year, and KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said recently that Kurdish-Arab relations are at their lowest point since Saddam was in power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Kurdish Party Could Destabilize Northern Iraq | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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