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...There’s never a good time or a bad time,” he said. “It’s not so much a matter of the climate as it is of the need...

Author: By Jacob Cedarbaum, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HBS Launches New Entrepreneurial Contest | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...wins. Two Ivy League Championships. Four post-season appearances. No matter how you measure it, the men’s soccer Class of ’09 has had a memorable...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Says Goodbye to Accomplished Senior Class | 12/2/2009 | See Source »

...Under the banner of this domestic unity and international legitimacy - and only after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden - we sent our troops into Afghanistan. Within a matter of months, al-Qaeda was scattered, and many of its operatives were killed. The Taliban was driven from power and pushed back on its heels. A place that had known decades of fear now had reason to hope. At a conference convened by the U.N., a provisional government was established under President Hamid Karzai. And an International Security Assistance Force was established to help bring a lasting peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full Transcript of Obama's Speech | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...would thus be crazy to write off Sheik Mohammed, or Dubai, for that matter. The sheik is a hereditary leader whose ruling tribal lines date back to 1833. Although he only formally became Dubai's ruler in 2006 upon the death of a brother, he has been the driving force behind the emirate for three decades. Of equal importance, his ambition and competence have made him a leading figure - presently serving as Vice President, Prime Minister and Defense Minister - in the United Arab Emirates, the country created by a confederation of seven Arab sheikdoms in 1971. No leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubai's Woes a Blow to Ambitious Ruler Sheik Mo | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...regime's denunciation of alleged Western conspiracies against it, the yachtsmen's capture, made public on Nov. 30, could hardly have come at a worse time. Desperate to play down the incident and avoid a diplomatic row, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said he was looking forward to the matter "being promptly sorted out." Tehran took a different tone. "Naturally our measures will be hard and serious," Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaie, chief of staff to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told the semiofficial Fars news agency on Tuesday, "if we find out [the sailors] had evil intentions." (See pictures of terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Captives in Iran Face Uncertain Fate | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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