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...crew in 14 vessels adrift at sea remained hostage to Somali pirates. Clearly, these guys are not your regular Hollywood folk. In the coming days, the Bush administration will propose a resolution in the United Nations (UN) that would allow foreign forces to follow pirates into mainland Africa and fight them in the coastal towns where they hide between their seaborne adventures. Although some countries are reluctant to support an initiative that would redefine the Law of the Sea, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is expected to present a draft to the Security Council early next week. Moreover, the European...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Pirates of the Aden Gulf | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Climate change, education, health care, immigration, fiscal responsibility: These are the issues on which we build our political identities. They rouse us to fight so-called enemies in election after election, to support scoundrels in the interest of the party, to donate vast sums and volunteer long hours—they divide us because they matter...

Author: By Elise X. Liu | Title: The Sky is Falling | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...University of Illinois at Chicago. "Impeachment hearings would take a long time - months - and the call for a special election needs his signature, which the legislature would then have to override his veto. It's not a quick process." And given his pugnacious history, the governor could fight until the bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the House of Blagojevich | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Congressman survives the current political whirlwind and - a bigger if - should he become the Senate appointee, he will have to fight hard, and fast, to establish himself as an effective legislator. After 13 years in Congress, Jackson has had only one real signature issue: building a new airport on the far edges of Chicago's southern suburbs. It has hardly been a success. While the proposal appeases many of his constituents in suburban Cook County, who view a new airport as a potential economic catalyst for the city, residents of the largely agricultural communities that lie outside his district, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson Jr.: The Trouble with Being Candidate 5 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Afghanistan - the war that President-elect Barack Obama pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Aimless War: Why Are We in Afghanistan? | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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