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Sunai strongly criticized PAD leaders for not demanding that parents with children leave the airports, as a police move against the protesters was being prepared. "They are getting like Jim Jones," Sunai said, referring to the American religious cult leader who led more than 900 of his followers in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangkok Braces for Action Against Protesters | 11/28/2008 | See Source »

To grasp the logic of this strategy, start with the fact that Obama's likely national-security picks don't actually disagree very much with the foreign policy he laid out during the campaign. Jones is on record calling the Iraq war a "debacle" and urging that the detention center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Chooses an Unlikely Team of Hawks | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

On key policy issues, Jones, Gates and Clinton aren't significantly more hawkish than Obama. What they are is more hawkish symbolically. Gates is a Republican; Jones is a Marine general who once worked for John McCain; Clinton, as Senator from New York, has gained credibility with hawkish pro-Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Chooses an Unlikely Team of Hawks | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

With eight weeks left in office, President Bush commuted two prison sentences and granted 14 pardons--most of them to people convicted of crimes like tax evasion, drug offenses and fraud. The coming end of his term has led to speculation as to whether Bush will consider higher-profile petitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

'We failed to accurately represent the Lord and to fulfill the commandment to love others as ourselves.' STATEMENT FROM BOB JONES UNIVERSITY, apologizing for its refusal to admit black students until 1971 and for its previous ban on interracial dating

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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