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...scenario during the battles over federal appeals-court nominees earlier this year, and they met last week to affirm their belief that only "extraordinary circumstances" would justify a judicial filibuster. If at least five Senators from relatively conservative so-called red states--like Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska--can be convinced that Alito is not outside the mainstream, the thinking goes, then any chance of a filibuster would be off the table...
...stalemate, a no-exit of chronic hatred. The struggles (whether to liberate one's own people, or to suppress the dangerous other tribe, or simply to survive in the moral airlessness) became prisons. The Men of the Year of 1993 -- Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela -- did nothing more and nothing less than find a way to break out. By tradition, TIME's Men and Women of the Year are those who have most influenced history, for good or ill, in the previous 12 months. By that standard, Rabin, Arafat, Mandela and De Klerk might...
...four interviews -- all four of them with world leaders; all four of them at peak, frantically busy moments in their lives; and all four of them in about a week. On Dec. 7, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger and managing editor Jim Gaines met over dinner in Oslo, where Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were to receive their Nobel Peace Prizes three days later, and considered the problem. Mandela's people told Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod that they might be able to give TIME an hour or so early the next morning, but De Klerk could set aside...
...Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk: Two men who do not much like each other agree to remake the country they share...
...October 21, 2005, Time.com posted a story about an incident in which U.S. soldiers burned the corpses of two Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan. The story, based on the accounts of several sources at the scene, stated that Army Lieutenant Eric Nelson ordered the bodies to be burned and could face disciplinary action by the military. Since then, however, a source close to the investigation of the incident has told TIME that Lieutenant Nelson did not order the burnings, is not a focus of the investigation and is not among the military personnel who will be named in a report...