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...Hernandez's name. Sergeant Tony Carter, 33, who also served in this city during the early days of the war, acknowledges a sense of frustration with the current situation in light of the years of efforts to calm the city. "Of course, if you spend any time trying to fix something and it continuously has issues, yeah, there's going to be frustration," says Carter, who's from North Carolina. "I think everybody is probably frustrated a little bit. You just want to see it improve and get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission Unfinished | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...maybe what's really wrong with Hillary's campaign is something that is simply beyond even Bill Clinton's ability to fix. "It may be," says a friend, "their day has passed." As Bill told the folks in Chillicothe back in 1993, it is simply "a new and uncharted time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: The Bitter Half | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...scholars of the presidency, Kennedy's failure to scuttle or fix the ill-conceived invasion of Cuba is a classic case of the insufficiency of charisma alone. No quips, grins or flights of rhetoric would do. Kennedy needed on-the-job training, as he later admitted to a friend: "Presumably, I was going to learn these lessons sometime, and maybe better sooner than later." Unfortunately, when a President gets an education, we all pay the tuition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Experience Matter in a President? | 2/28/2008 | See Source »

...don’t have that insight into the community, the community will think you’re just coming to fix them, so it seems condescending,” Graham says. “And then if the program should disband, it doesn’t help the community afterwards...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scrambling to Serve | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...insecure." It's a familiar lament in Pakistan these days. "We are worried about terrorism and those other things, but first we are worried about basic needs," says Islamabad nurse Nithat, 24, as she shops in the capital's busy Aab Para market. "People want a person who can fix this problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Price Hikes Roil Pakistan | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

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