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South Korea's President Lee Myung Bak was ready to engage on a wide range of issues when he met TIME's Michael Elliott, Michael Schuman and Jennifer Veale. Here are excerpts from the one-hour interview...
...that had rusted over," says Ellen Levinson, executive director of the Washington-based Alliance for Food Aid. African nations' own policies have also been inadequate. In 2002, African Union leaders vowed to spend 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural development; few of the 53 member nations have consistently met that target. "We have been warning of the dangers for a long time," says Simon Scott, head of statistics for the OECD, which has tracked how several African countries have gone from being food exporters in the 1980s to relying heavily on foreign food aid today. In short, the world...
...After that, Mohammed allegedly told Hawsawi, "Don't talk to your lawyer, talk to me," Jackson recalled. The incident could prove important, because Hawsawi appeared to have changed his decision to be represented by a lawyer as a result of the exchange. "When I met with my client in the holding cell before the arraignment he was very clear that he intended to have a lawyer," Jackson said. "As soon as he got in that courtroom, everything changed." Trial observers said it was very unusual, if not unknown, to permit co-defendants to have such prolonged contact during the sensitive...
...When Betsy Myers first met with Obama in his Senate office on Jan. 3, 2007, about two weeks before he announced he was forming an exploratory committee to run for President, Obama laid down three ruling principles for his future chief operating officer: Run the campaign with respect; build it from the bottom up; and finally, no drama. Myers was struck by how closely Obama had studied the two campaigns of George W. Bush. "He said he wanted to run our campaign like a business," says Myers. And in a good business, the customer is king. Early on, before...
...mother in Kansas City who bundled her kids up at night with coats and hats because there was no heat and said to her children, "Don't tell the people at school or they'll take you away." I saw it in the great man I met in Virginia who went 50 years without speaking because he had no health insurance to correct a simple problem. He was so grateful and humble when someone fixed it for free and he could tell his story...