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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Good God, do not close this abortion clinic for this reason.' TROY NEWMAN, leader of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, lamenting plans to shutter Dr. George Tiller's clinic because of Tiller's murder rather than ideological opposition to the practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...Nicolas Sarkozy The French leader's rightist party won 27% of the Euro vote despite low turnout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

Omar Bongo, 73, assumed the presidency of the West African nation of Gabon in 1967 and remained in power until his death on June 8. An authoritarian leader, Bongo--who had been the world's longest-serving President--was criticized for using Gabon's vast oil resources to fund a lavish lifestyle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...real-life Amazon - isn't particularly biodiverse yet. If publishers aren't in a position to check Amazon directly, the market is, or it will be. There will be some painful scenes while we wait for that to happen, but already Google - a company that never met a loss leader it didn't like - has announced its intention to start selling e-books before the end of the year. Simon & Schuster has just announced a plan to sell digital copies of its books through the e-book website Scribd.com. The price? Twenty percent off the harcover price, which comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Amazon Taking Over the Book Business? | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...ensuing media frenzy led to Warren's testifying a few times on Capitol Hill, where she caught the eye of Senate majority leader Harry Reid. When asked how she ended up on Reid's short list, Warren says, "I took away from the conversation that my presence was about American families having a stake in the outcome of these powerful decisions that are being made. So I've never apologized for caring about and raising issues that relate directly to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elizabeth Warren: Riding Herd on the Bailout | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

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