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...most dangerous regions. Harboring a hatred of the locals that stemmed from heavy losses their platoon had sustained, Green and his co-conspirators hit upon a plan as savage as it was outrageous. Donning long black underwear disguises they called "ninja suits," they slipped away unnoticed from their post and ventured to a house several hundred meters away, where they jumped the family living there. Three of the four soldiers, including Green, raped Abeer, and Green shot all four family members at point-blank range. The soldiers returned to their checkpoint undetected, and for months afterward, the U.S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Soldier Murders: Steven Green Gets Life | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

Klaus, an economist by training, is a highly divisive veteran of Czech post-communist politics who had served as finance minister and prime minister before becoming president in 2003. He was re-elected to the five-year office last year. The Czech president is no stranger to controversy. A dogged critic of all things E.U., Klaus most recently likened the bloc to the Soviet Union. He is also a rare yet prominent global warming doubter - he does not believe that climate change is caused by man and has called costly measures to curb it a waste. (See pictures of Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vaclav Klaus: The Man with the E.U.'s Fate in His Hands | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

Cosby, who had completed roughly three semesters’ worth of work, officially withdrew in April, school officials said yesterday. Although he had not declared his major, Cosby said that her son had shared his post-college plans of “going into computers and looking forward to a nice, comfortable life...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Friends, Neighbors Remember Cosby’s 'Strong' Presence | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Lack of accurate reporting from the war front was one reason why the international outcry against the military's heavy-handedness was so muted - especially in the U.S. Rajapaksa also benefited from the post-9/11 global consensus that insurgent groups using terror tactics "can no longer call themselves freedom fighters," according to Daniel Markey, a South Asia expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The Tigers didn't understand this, and paid a significant price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Defeat Insurgencies: Sri Lanka's Bad Example | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Although women play important public roles in various sectors of Iranian society and constitute the majority of university students, no woman thus far has been appointed to a significant ministry in post-revolutionary Iran. The woman who has held the highest Cabinet position is Massoumeh Ebtekar - better known to American television viewers of 30 years ago as "Mary," the students' spokeswoman during the U.S. embassy hostage crisis in Tehran. She was appointed by reformist President Mohammad Khatami as his Vice President as well as the head of the Department of Environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman as President: Iran's Impossible Dream? | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

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