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...Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter ... but Really Do (W.W. Norton), author Melinda Blau and Purdue psychology professor Karen Fingerman explore the meaning of these often overlooked ties. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Blau at her home in Northampton, Mass. (See TIME's list of the top 10 doctored photos...
...consequential strangers - the service providers, the plumber, people we know from church or school or other venues, where you don't really know them that well, but you appreciate them. Or people you'd like to get to know better. So in a way, looking at your Christmas-card list, you can see beyond the intimate circle. Who you send Christmas cards to, probably a good two-thirds if not more go to people you don't know that well, but you still want to acknowledge that they're part of your social convoy...
...case is known as "Clearstream" - a reference to a Luxembourg bank in which a number of top French politicians and business figures purportedly held accounts containing illegal kickback money from arms contracts. Those claims turned out to be false - as was the forged list of names of 89 Clearstream account holders that was sent to a French investigating judge in 2004 by an anonymous whistle-blower. Among those cited were then Finance Minister Sarkozy, who at the time was locked in a fierce battle with his boss, Prime Minister de Villepin, over who would run as the right's standard...
...spokesman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to the Senate. "But the bottom line is that Democrats were elected in 2006 and 2008 with a directive to change the direction of the country, and the health-care crisis was at the top of the list. We will not let political posturing get in the way of progress. It's this same posturing that is why we're in this mess today - and it's also why the Republican Party is in such bad shape today." (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...contrast, the civilian government has been more open. "They have made the offer, and some of our law-enforcement agencies are receiving training from the Americans," Interior Minister Rehman Malik tells TIME. Still, Malik says, "we need all sorts of capacity-building equipment, the list is long." Some leading analysts argue that the U.S. has focused too narrowly on the army to the neglect of the police's counterterrorism abilities - which could prove crucial in thwarting bombings, like the one that struck a crowded marketplace in Kohat on Sept. 18, killing...