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...Iraq - in other words, for standing up to Bush. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change probably deserved the Nobel in 2007 for spreading the word about global warming, but the committee wouldn't have dreamed of adding former Democratic Vice President (and almost President) Al Gore if it hadn't wanted to contrast his advocacy with Bush's climate denial. (See George W. Bush's best YouTube moments...
...that he is President, Obama is forced to defend massive deficits, a big-government stimulus, onerous financial regulations, a mess in Afghanistan. He's been increasingly reluctant to play the Bush card, the we-got-left-a-mess card, the things-would-be-a-lot-worse-if-we-hadn't-acted card. But it's a good card! And it's true. In foreign affairs, the U.S. doesn't need to be loved, but it is nice to be less hated for a change, and Republican leaders have attacked Obama for every deviation (however slight) from the Bush approach...
...army straight through the middle of the Hindu Kush. The commander who had gone through the northwest, expecting less resistance, arrived exhausted and bloodied on the banks of the Indus River. He had fought every step of the way. But Alexander, who had journeyed through the most dangerous part, hadn't lost a single soldier. "How is that possible?" asked the battered general. "Easy," replied Alexander. "The chief of the Afghan tribes stopped us and said, 'If you want to cross the mountains, either you pay us in gold or we fight.' So I paid," he said with a shrug...
...mother died when I was 11. Several years afterward, my father let me stay up late at night to watch movies on TV, and I watched him cry for the first time. He hadn't cried at her funeral, and I suddenly at age 13 or 14 realized the huge power of film, that here was the place that he felt he could express emotions. I vowed right then and there that I wanted to be a filmmaker...
...revive Germany's economy, and he was vague about broader European issues. In an interview with TIME before the election, Westerwelle didn't refer directly to France but talked about the critical importance of the E.U. as a political entity, not just an economic one. "If Europe hadn't achieved anything other than peace for this [postwar] period, it would already have been worthwhile," he said. But the E.U. could do more to improve its decision-making structure, he added: "Europe needs to be better. It should focus more on issues that have to be discussed at a European level...