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Moving at a high speed, chased by network anchors and doling out interviews that kept the story humming, the trip was everything Obamaland wanted: Their man was firm, humble, measured, accessible and careful not to get into, as he told CNN Friday, "the business of second guessing our President" while overseas. It wasn't flawless - his campaign got itself into a minor but unnecessary disagreement with the Pentagon on Friday about why Obama scheduled then cancelled a visit to a military hospital in Germany. But most things broke his way: Iraqi leader Nouri al-Maliki all but mimicked his timetable...
...evening of July 27, more than a month after Mehdi and his passengers were killed (and hours after this story first appeared on TIME.com), did the U.S. military release the conclusions of its own investigation, essentially agreeing with the Iraqi police reports and the conclusions of a private security firm contracted to manage the checkpoints on the road...
...Progressives saw the encyclical as the ultimate proof that the Church was bound to remain out of touch with contemporary reality. Traditionalists, instead, can mark it as the beginning of their return to favor, when the Vatican undertook to stand firm against the forces of secularism blowing through the West - and within the Church itself. Today, the traditionalists clearly have a Pope after their own hearts in Benedict XVI. But he's not one to take their positions for granted...
...experts agree. "The Libyans are stupid enough to act irrationally," says Conrad Gerber, president of Petro-Logistics, a Geneva oil consultancy firm. "They produce 1.7 million barrels a day, yielding billions of dollars, so the small Swiss market is a drop in a bucket for them...
...Myler, the News of the World editor, argued that the verdict rendered the press "less free." But Caroline Kean, head of litigation at media law firm Wiggin LLP, says the verdict is unlikely to curb serious investigative journalism. "It would be very different if something illegal had been going on or if Mr. Mosley had set himself as arbiter of public morals, campaigning against S&M," she says. Instead, she argues, the modest award of $120,000 will protect publications from high-stakes lawsuits from celebrities disgruntled over being photographed on the street. Now when celebrities sue for invasion...