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...Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fueled destabilizing forces in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine while pursuing a nuclear weapon. His influence cost thousands of lives and threatens many more in the future as he sparks continued deterioration of the region that is the world's greatest source of oil and terrorists. By avoiding the choice of Ahmadinejad, TIME sacrificed its journalistic integrity. Henceforth the rightful name for your selection should be Popular Person of the Year. Gordon Landwirth New York City...
...world economy from world politics, where the bad news keeps piling up like the mangled victims of terror and mayhem in Baghdad. Iran, thanks to the weakening of American power, is on a roll, and so is Syria, which less than two years ago was shown the door in Lebanon. North Korea has exploded a nuclear device, and Russia is back to its imperial ways, except that Putin is much more effective with his pipelines than was the Politburo with its tanks and missiles. Much of Africa is stuck in poverty, war and disease while Latin America is again succumbing...
LIEUT. GENERAL DAN HALUTZ, Israel's military commander, in a resignation letter announced Jan. 17, explaining why he stepped down after the army's failure to defeat Hizballah in Lebanon last summer...
...life of a Middle East correspondent isn't all conflict and crisis. In fact - though I may regret letting my editors in on the secret - when there isn't a war, the living in Lebanon is pretty darn easy. Ski season opened here properly a few days ago with the first sunny weekend at Faraya Mazaar, Lebanon's most developed ski resort. And, as the saying goes, TIME was there...
...Halutz may have left, but the political battle has just started. Meanwhile, from Lebanon, Hizballah's televison network gleefully reported Halutz's resignation as proof of the militia's victory against Israel...