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SAMANTHA POWER A Harvard University professor, her book on genocide won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 I nominate Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk. He has acknowledged his homeland's genocide against the Armenians and nearly got himself arrested before the Turks decided their commitment to and pride in their greatest writer exceeded a commitment to killers who died almost a century ago. It could bring a cultural change. Also George Clooney, for the obvious reasons, and the students who led the divestment movement on campuses for Darfur...
RESIGNED. Brian Doyle, 56, as deputy press secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; following his arrest for attempting to seduce a minor over the Internet; in Silver Spring, Md. Doyle was an employee of TIME's Washington bureau from...
...like dumb, funny books," she says. "I like the classics . . . Dickens, Kipling." At 10, she wrote her first book; her latest follows a troubled teen whose parents decide to homeschool her. Tahirrah has a clear picture of her future: teaching English in Turkey, her father's homeland, while continuing to write novels. And much of her learning is geared toward that goal...
...retrospect, however, it may have been too perfect. After initially signing on, Reid decided he might be walking into a trap. Some Republicans wanted to vote on amendments that Reid believed would have essentially picked apart the compromise plan; under one of them, for instance, the Department of Homeland Security would have had to certify that the border was secure before any illegal immigrants could be made legal...
...knew that could be political suicide, forcing fellow Democrats to vote against a bill Republicans would portray as securing America's broken borders. Those Democrats who were around in the last mid-term election are still smarting from the votes they cast against the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, an issue Republicans cashed in handily at the polls. Giving Frist another National Security vote to beat the Democrats with, they feared, was a sure fire way to let Republicans maintain control of the Senate this fall...