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...whether he will give it at the historic Brandenburg Gate, near the former site of the Berlin Wall. (Campaign staffers reportedly were looking for alternate sites after Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her displeasure about the prospect of a presidential candidate speaking where Ronald Reagan in 1987 demanded, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!") Campaign officials are not even divulging which officials Obama plans to meet with, though some details have begun to leak. A diplomatic source tells TIME that King Abdullah II of Jordan plans to press Obama to promise that, if elected, he would place a higher priority than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Faces His Overseas Audition | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...obviously required no prompting, let alone coercion, from her husband." Robertson said that the court would see in due course how the couple "worked a complex web of transactions between various bank accounts, making the finances all the more difficult to trace." For Mrs. Darwin's defense to succeed, Mr Robertson said that she must prove that her husband was present at the time each fraudulent offense was committed and show that her husband's pressure was so great that "she was impelled to act in a way against her own will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canoe Man's Wife Stands Trial | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...location," says Jim Hooley, the head of Reagan's advance office. "The speechwriters came away inspired by the fact that Reagan would be giving the speech with the Wall at his back. Could you imagine Reagan saying, 'Tear down that wall that's over there three miles away, Mr. Gorbachev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Brandenburg Concerto | 7/12/2008 | See Source »

...only would I never become Vice President, Mr. Pitt assured me, but I could never run for any public office. "Not in this country, no. Maybe France. They might be a little bigger on porn and hating America," he said. Before I could become Vice President, he told me, America would have its first female, Jewish, Hispanic, gay, Muslim and ex-convict Vice Presidents. Still, Vice President of France doesn't sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heartbeat Away | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...While I was trying to defend myself, apparently Mr. Pitt checked out my website. "Your official website says you're the guy who loves porn and hates America," he said. When I explained that was a joke, he told me jokes don't make for good campaigning. "Generally, people don't like to know that their Vice President wrote the sentence 'I love porn.' I'm now looking at the unpublished Joel Stein columns. 'The Hooker in My Car'? I'm now reading your column about your marijuana brownies. It's not the best thing in the world. This column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Heartbeat Away | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

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