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...funding from abroad, restricts charity work on issues related to gender, ethnicity, children's rights and conflict resolution, and bars advocacy activities. The government says the law is meant to ensure that charities focus on development, but many fear it will deter those working in the field from taking bold actions like advocating for the hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought and Famine: Ethiopia's Cycle Continues | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...prosecutor Luis Moreno-]Ocampo alleges in his indictment that there is a complete command-and-control structure within the Sudanese government; that you are not only President but you are Field Marshall of the armed forces. And therefore you are directly responsible for every action down to the lowest enlisted man. To what degree do you control the apparatus of the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Omar al-Bashir Q&A: 'In Any War, Mistakes Happen on the Ground' | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...staff; there are joint chiefs for the army, the air force, like [in] the organization of any armed forces. The army conducts military operations with the support of the air force. There are joint-operations staff, units and leaders that manage operations on the ground in addition to field commanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Omar al-Bashir Q&A: 'In Any War, Mistakes Happen on the Ground' | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...wedding and killed 147 civilians. But you cannot say that the U.S. president should be tried for this because he is the commander-in-chief of U.S. forces, not even the [American] head of chiefs-of-staffs would be put to trial. But if it was proven that the field commander that ordered this operation made this decision without confirming whether this was a gathering of civilians or combatants, then he is the one to be held responsible and laws are clear on this. I mentioned that the law holds accountable those who transgress the law, and we've held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Omar al-Bashir Q&A: 'In Any War, Mistakes Happen on the Ground' | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

Scientists will often portray the Big Bang as if it were known fact, but it isn't. It's a theory within a very speculative field of science, cosmology, which is about as speculative as it gets. I'm not saying the Big Bang theory isn't true, but it's a work in progress. (Watch TIME's video "Galileo and the Year of Astronomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Came Before the Big Bang? | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

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