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...Both Democratic presidential candidates will be able to point to the recent fighting in the southern city of Basra as evidence of poor Iraqi leadership and ill-prepared and unmotivated U.S.-trained Iraqi troops. While Iran helped negotiate a deal that curbed the fighting in Basra, Tehran continues to supply Shi'ite groups linked to cleric Moqtada al Sadr with lethal weapons and training that continue to take a toll on U.S. forces, Pentagon officials say. That, they add glumly, suggests Iran could continue a game of hard-nosed cat-and-mouse for as long as U.S. troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Candidates Will Say | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...mind. "Like the seemingly respectable married man who makes his living as a drug lord, Mugabe holds parallel positions," she writes. "The two are not coordinated in his divided self. While he was indeed the enlightened leader who wanted to develop the country, improve the plight of the poor and secure freedom by resisting colonial power, the once-admirable leader is also the person doing the terrible things that can't be mentioned? He can insist that he never sacrifices his principles because the way he sees it, he did not set out to murder, and the torture people suffered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe Plays for Time | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...Sochi meeting produced a rather amusing document, titled "The Strategic Framework Declaration," whose contents could be summed up in the old Russian adage that "It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunset for the Bush-Putin Era | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

Selsby blames the “problem areas” of wireless on areas of “extreme traffic” rather than poor design or FAS IT’s intent...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wireless Satisfaction On The Rise | 4/4/2008 | See Source »

...vain for another one. In the meantime, we learn all sorts of facts about illegals, like how they use P.O. boxes for their mail (“so the INS can’t find them,” as Enrique explains). We’re even introduced to poor Mexican-American college students Marta and David (played by America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty” fame and Jesse Garcia from “Quinceaña”) who resort to taking illegals across the border for tuition money. It’s a credit...

Author: By Linda Y. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Under the Same Moon (La misma luna) | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

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