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Saturday night President Obama charmingly delivered a rather bleak message to the gay community on the eve of its latest march on Washington. In a speech to the world's largest gay political group, the Human Rights Campaign, Obama essentially said two things: I'm with you. But I can't do much...
Outside the convention center, anger simmered as gays prepared for today's march. Roughly 300 gathered at a Washington restaurant yesterday - so many that scores spilled onto the street outside - to hear speakers angrily denounce a political system they said was run by corporate interests. "Obama lost me," said Zach Rosen, 28, who came to Washington from Philadelphia. "He took a lot of gay dollars and gay votes, and then it was like Clinton - unkept promises...
This "fedayeen" tactic - killing until killed - was also deployed with chilling effect on March 30, when Taliban attackers wearing police uniforms stormed a police academy just outside the eastern city of Lahore, leading to an eight-hour firefight before paramilitary troops and police commandos eventually overwhelmed the militants. That attack came just weeks after gunmen attacked the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team in the heart of Lahore. In both instances, while the operation was surely orchestrated from South Waziristan, the attackers were traced to southern Punjab, where Taliban-linked militants are burgeoning. (See TIME's photo-essay "Pakistan Beneath...
...ugly truth, though, is that the 401(k) is a lousy idea, a financial flop, a rotten repository for our retirement reserves. In the past two years, that has become all too clear. From the end of 2007 to the end of March 2009, the average 401(k) balance fell 31%, according to Fidelity. The accounts have rebounded, along with the rest of the market, but that's little help for those who retired - or were forced to - during the recession. In a system in which one year's gains build on the next, the disaster of 2008 will dent...
Mazoltuv Borukhova, a Queens doctor, was convicted in March of first-degree murder after her cousin, Mikhail Mallayev, shot and killed her husband execution style in front of their 4-year-old daughter in a playground. In the midst of a heated custody dispute, Borukhova allegedly lured her husband to the playground where she had hired Mallayev to carry out the murder...