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...Although one conservative military organization, comprised largely of retired soldiers, lambasted Zapatero's choice as a display of "contempt," the armed forces' hierarchy itself has been characteristically circumspect. "We will receive her with the same respect as her predecessors," one high-ranking officer anonymously told El País newspaper, "and perhaps a little more delicacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Pregnant Defense Minister | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...idea from news reports and was only kidding. Another 11-year-old, in Phoenix was arrested after threatening to shoot a teacher's tape player and then the teacher. He apparently did not like the teacher's "obnoxious music." Elizabeth Bush, the eighth-grader in Williamsport, Pa., who dreamed of becoming either a human-rights activist or a nun, shot the head cheerleader in the cafeteria. "No one thought I would go through with this," she yelled as she fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Only Me, | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...ALTOONA, PA. Obama ribbed over low score at a bowling-alley campaign stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefing | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...through an American history of hope, from the colonists to civil rights marchers. It was the core of his message: patriotism defined as change, the creation of a more perfect union. And so it was rather shocking to hear Obama speak - stripped down and hope redacted - in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on April Fools' Day, his peroration transformed into a Clintonian pledge to get up every morning as President and devote himself to the single mothers, the laid-off workers, "the working families of Pennsylvania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patriotism Problem | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...Obama did add his old hope riff at the end of a question-and-answer session later in Scranton, Pa., but it seemed an afterthought. The bulk of his presentation, especially the Q&A, was solid protein. He offered Hillaryesque, do-good details: If we return to the national obesity levels of 1980, it would save $1 trillion in health-care costs! He claimed that the mortgage-lending industry had spent $185 million on lobbying over the past decade, and Big Pharma had spent $1 billion. He gave comprehensive answers about trade, immigration and military procurement. He was detailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patriotism Problem | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

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