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...seems plausible, Kim told the former President on Aug. 4 that he is willing to reopen talks about his nuclear program but only directly with the U.S., what will Obama say in response? Is it likely that the President will insist on a diplomatic arrangement that is entirely a product of the Bush Administration? The White House likes to think of itself as guided by cold-blooded realists - diplomats who keep their eyes strictly on U.S. interests. Three successive Administrations - Clinton, Bush and now Obama - have decided the only real goal that matters when it comes to North Korea...
...Fatah-affiliated militants of al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade. It will flatly reject Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, on the grounds that this undermines the rights of Palestinian refugees and of those with Israeli citizenship. It will also insist on a complete freeze on Jewish settlements in occupied territory as a precondition for any talks with Israel, which it will stress must be based on U.N. resolutions - which will include recognition of the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees expelled from Israel in 1948, a demand that Israel deems...
Still, the Angels insist the club's reputation as a criminal organization is undeserved, pointing to its frequent charity work on behalf of children and veterans. A banner on the bottom of the Hells Angels website reads, "When we do right nobody remembers, when we do wrong nobody forgets." Yet many Hells Angels have clearly lived up to their lawless image - arrests and convictions for drug trafficking (especially meth), assault, weapons possession and even murder have trailed the group for decades. Most notoriously, Hells Angels allegedly plotted to kill rock legend Mick Jagger following the infamous 1969 riot at California...
...package worth about $15,000 per year - and public employees get more, about $19,000. "The police and firefighters get even more," she says. "But they need it, and do you really want to tax them for putting their lives on the line?" (Advocates like Representative Cooper insist that exceptions for some unions can be made.) (See the results of TIME's health-care poll...
...disputed June 12 election was the last straw for Mousavi and those who view themselves as Khomeini's heirs. Their anger turned on a critical point of Islamic doctrine: they insist that the legitimacy of an Islamic ruler springs from the people; Khamenei, on the other hand, believes that legitimacy derives from God's will - and the Supreme Leader's interpretation of that will. In condoning Ahmadinejad's theft of the June 12 election, Khamenei, they believe, has indeed proved himself a usurper...