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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...issue is that these guys get tried and be brought to justice. Let's get [them] convicted and just move on.' JIM RICHES, a retired deputy fire chief whose firefighter son died in the Sept. 11 attacks; Riches visited Gitmo this year and supports Obama's plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...novels of U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) - the ex-Marine starting writing fiction long before he went to Washington - has depicted swashbuckling Americans seeking out thrilling adventures in exotic locales. Still even he might not have imagined a scenario in which the Vietnam-war-veteran-turned-politician jetted in on a U.S. military aircraft to the heavily fortified Burmese capital to meet with the reclusive leader of the country's ruling military junta. On Aug. 15, Webb, who serves as chair of the Senate Foreign Relation's subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific Affairs, became the first top-level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Virginia Senator Jim Webb Visits Junta Leader | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...Indeed, in the hours following Webb's meeting with Than Shwe, the senator's office released a statement saying that the convicted American would be deported from Burma on Sunday. The twists and turns of Yettaw's case are stranger than that of any fiction - even that of Sen. Jim Webb's. See pictures of the decades-long battle for democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Virginia Senator Jim Webb Visits Junta Leader | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...recession has hit everything from philanthropy to stripping to the solvency of Nevada. Because Nevada has no income tax and relies almost entirely on taxing casino owners, the state is nearly bust. Governor Jim Gibbons, a Republican, whom only 11% of voters say they would re-elect, tried to turn down federal stimulus money, was accused of cheating on his wife and lost control of the legislature, having his vetoes overridden more times than any other Nevada governor. Budget cuts have closed the only hospital cancer wing for uninsured patients. "We're on the bottom of every bad list," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Vegas: The Casino Town Bets on a Comeback | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

...interview - his first with the American newsmedia since the ICC's arrest warrants were issued - was conducted in collaboration with "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS. Here are edited highlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Omar al-Bashir Q&A: 'In Any War, Mistakes Happen on the Ground' | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

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