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...summarized Turkey's new strategy as "zero problems with its neighbors." The reclusive Davutoglu wrote last year: "A central country with such an optimal geographic location cannot define itself in a defensive manner. It should be seen neither as a bridge country, which only connects two points, nor a frontier country, nor indeed as an ordinary country, which sits at the edge of the Muslim world or the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey Could Be Key Player in Gaza Peace | 1/7/2009 | See Source »

...whatever fortifications Hamas fighters have built but also to signal that Israel has once again broken its own restraints on military action in Gaza, willing to go hard against the Hamas leadership no matter where they are and no matter the consequences to security along Israel's own southwestern frontier. Already in recent days, Israeli forces struck a house of a Hamas leader while civilians were inside and bombed a mosque at Beit Lahiya believed by Israel to have been used to store weapons. With both these actions, Israel is deliberately cultivating a sense that it has changed the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Enters Gaza: Negotiating with Extreme Prejudice | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

...Hamas to fulfill Israeli demands that it stop firing rockets. Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshal seems willing to accept that condition in exchange for Israel's reopening border crossings that have economically asphyxiated Gaza - an issue that could eventually force a change in Egypt's closure of its frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Sarkozy's Syria Ties Deliver a Mideast Truce? | 1/2/2009 | See Source »

...there is no shortage of other players in Lebanon who could disrupt the tense stability along the frontier. Some of Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps are home to al-Qaeda-inspired militant groups who are suspected of having launched rockets into Israel on two occasions since the end of the 2006 war. On Sunday, the mood in Ain al-Hilweh, the largest and most lawless of the camps, located outside the southern port city of Sidon, was one of fury and mourning. "All that the Israelis are doing, these massacres, killings and bombings, is creating a new generation of suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attacking Gaza, Israel Worries About Lebanon | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

This time next year Lamont Library will be overflowing with students chugging Red Bull and obsessing over the “production possibilities frontier.” Some Harvard undergraduates just can’t wait. Starting in the 2009-2010 academic year, fall examinations at Harvard will take place before winter break, leaving Princeton as the only Ivy League university with exams in January. To accommodate this change, classes will start two weeks earlier in September and end three days earlier in April. As undergraduates enter their last exam-free December, many students on campus are enthusiastic about...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Look Ahead to 2009 Calendar Change | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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