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...creating and supporting female entrepreneurs is absolutely critical, which is why it is the main focus of the foundation I have set up. In Ramallah, in the West Bank, we have already joined with local partners to establish a business center to tackle the shortfall in training, skills and business networks for women. In northern Israel, we help support a business course for women from the Muslim, Druze, Jewish and Christian communities. (See the Top 10 news stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Change We Need | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...innocence on the basis of one piece of evidence: the victim claimed that the accused man tore off her sequined dress, yet no sequins were found at the crime scene. (Perry Mason, you've got nothing to worry about.) The racial politics grow a little more complicated as the focus shifts in the last scene to the play's fourth character, a black legal aide (Kerry Washington) who, in the manner of most females in Mamet's male-dominated universe, turns out to be a snake in the grass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downward Spiral of David Mamet | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

Additionally, the new schedule has allowed swimmers to take the month of January to focus on training and a healthy lifestyle without other distractions...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Swimming Dominates Penn in Return to Action | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...report suggests that these analysts were not being tasked properly, given the known effort by AQAP to attack the U.S. homeland. "Analytic focus during December was on the imminent AQAP attacks on American and American interests in Yemen, and on supporting [counterterrorism] efforts in Yemen," the report reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flight 253: No Finger-Pointing, Plenty of Blame | 1/8/2010 | See Source »

...days since passengers overpowered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab aboard the Detroit-bound jet he allegedly tried to blow up on Christmas Day, almost every aspect of the case - from Abdulmutallab's absence from no-fly lists to the handling of intelligence from Nigeria - has been the focus of fierce criticism of the Obama Administration. On Thursday afternoon, President Obama outlined preliminary reviews of the intelligence failings that allowed Abdulmutallab onto the Amsterdam-to-Detroit jet and laid out additional steps to fix those shortcomings. Reporting that a systemic failure allowed the bombing attempt, he said he was ultimately responsible and made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Should America Try Terror Suspects? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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