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Palin, just-plain-old-ordinary-citizen-after-Sunday Sarah • editor at Vanity Fair turns resignation speech of into actual English • formation of slush fund by may have violated ethics laws • hairdresser of suddenly starts tweeting about how full of lies the New York Times story about was - especially the part about the thinning hair of - a week after e-mailing the writer, "Thank you so much for the article!! It was perfect!" • less politically correct tweets are promised by • one last look at how nothing is ever the fault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Biden also made plain that in terms of Georgia's breakaway regions, "there is no military option to reintegration ... Only a peaceful and prosperous Georgia has the prospect of restoring [its] territorial integrity by showing those in Abkhazia and South Ossetia a Georgia where they can be free and their communities can flourish." (See more on Georgia-Russia relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biden's Balancing Act in Georgia and Ukraine | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

Cronkite loved the news business, plain not fancy. He began as a teenage stringer for Houston newspapers and then made his way into radio before being hired by the United Press, the spunky cousin of the Associated Press. During World War II, Walter was UP's man in London, a colleague of the legendary Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, later of the New York Times; Andy Rooney, then with Stars and Stripes; and Ed Murrow, the incomparable voice of CBS News. Murrow was stunned when Cronkite turned down an offer to become one of Murrow's Boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walter Cronkite, a No-Nonsense Newshound | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

...alluding to the days before the 1979 revolution when the country was ruled by the Shah and his much-feared secret police, SAVAK. "They [the security apparatus] are lashing out because they're afraid the system is going to fall." (See pictures of the Basij in action: terror in plain clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Tehran's Streets, the Basij's Fearsome Reign | 7/23/2009 | See Source »

Young or old, handsome or plain, quiet or loud--the surest way to win followers is to convince them that when the going gets tough, you won't run and hide. There's a reason Harry Truman's White House desk sign, the buck stops here, has entered presidential mythology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Charisma? Don't Worry, You Can Still Be a Leader | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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