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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hostile questions being obligatorily asked of by Republicans and answered by in as unrevealing a manner as possible with endless blather about "fidelity to the law," while Senators find themselves endlessly repeating umpiring metaphor to, and surely you think that's already way more than you want to hear about this, but wait, here's Jon Stewart's take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/17/2009 | See Source »

...streets of the cities and towns of China's northwestern region of Xinjiang you can hear complaints from the Uighur minority group about restrictions on the Islamic religion they practice, their Turkic language or their culture, which is most closely linked to the lands of Central Asia. But in interviews in Urumqi, the regional capital that exploded with ethnic rioting last week that left 184 dead, the single most common complaint of Uighur residents is that they feel excluded from economic opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Uighurs Feel Left Out of China's Boom | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...presidential election and its fallout has quickened its pace. An Iranian student who is supposed to enter a university in New England this fall says that worsening relations may have dashed his chance to secure an American visa (stories abound of Iranians waiting upwards of a year to hear about their applications). "We cannot stay in this country," he says. "But the Americans do not want us in theirs. All my friends want to leave, but what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Satan's Old Den: Visiting Tehran's U.S. Embassy | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

Even within sight of the former U.S. embassy turned Revolutionary Guards bastion, one can hear such sentiments. One woman, her hijab pulled back revealing much of her dyed hair, honks her horn at a group of foreigners outside the embassy. With a smile, she gives the peace sign before zipping off into the distance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Satan's Old Den: Visiting Tehran's U.S. Embassy | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...think you're passed the danger point? I think so. We've come too far now to see it slip back. The greatest risk I face is resistance to change. [Often] we hear about assassination attempts. It's always a risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Look Across Africa and See the Major Changes that are Happening' | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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