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...This new African impatience may be having an effect. In his inauguration speech, Mugabe unexpectedly raised the possibility of sharing power with the opposition. "It is my hope that sooner rather than later, we shall as diverse political parties hold consultations toward such serious dialogue as will minimise our differences and enhance the area of unity and cooperation," he said. Mugabe's sudden appetite for peaceful talks may be mere rhetoric; certainly, no one expects "Uncle Bob" to step down anytime soon. But it could be that even he, the most ferocious of the dinosaurs, realizes that their...
Counterterrorism officials say the best hope for nabbing No. 1 and No. 2 may lie in the capture of second-tier al-Qaeda commanders who know where their bosses are hiding. A recent CIA report speculates that bin Laden has long-term kidney disease and may have only months to live, two U.S. officials familiar with the report told TIME. (A CIA spokesman denied the report exists.) The Pentagon has requested that Bush sign an "execute order" expanding its authority to go after these commanders in Pakistani territory; senior counterterrorism and Defense Department officials tell TIME that broader authority...
...pair of developed and developing nations--the U.S. and Russia, Germany and Poland, Britain and India--and there is history, but at the same time beckoning opportunity. At next week's G-8 summit, to be held in Japan, the leaders of the world's most advanced economies hope to make headway on one of the biggest opportunities: an agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires...
...hope we can get our rates of return to levels comparable to the best North American universities," says John Hood, vice-chancellor of Oxford. They've some way to go. In the decade to August 2006, Oxford's central endowment delivered an annualized return of 6.7%. Over an almost identical period, an appetite for riskier investments helped Harvard's endowment return 16.7%. At Yale, the rate was 17.2%. (In a coup for Cambridge, David Swensen, the former Wall Street exec who has masterminded Yale's returns, now sits on the university's own Investment Board...
...bureaucratic spelling error has brought a group of Dhangars, sporting tribal red and yellow colors, here for the fourth time. "We hope this time our voice will be heard," says Gunderao Bansode, an advocate who introduces himself as the leader of the group. They're from the western state of Maharashtra, where they accuse state officials of deliberately misspelling the name of their tribe in order to deny it entitlements due under Indian law, which reserves places in educational institutes and legislatures, as well as government jobs for certain "scheduled" castes and tribes. The Dhangar are a "scheduled tribe...