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...than three weeks remaining in his term, President Bush can hardly influence events, and his successor seems unwilling to directly engage with the problem before the Jan. 20 Inauguration. But Obama, having endorsed Israel's right to respond to Hamas' rockets during his election campaign, may find that his present silence will cost him friends across the Middle East. The Gaza attack has strengthened Arab radicals while silencing the voices of moderate states once willing to improve ties with Israel. Egypt is in an especially tight spot: having brokered the old cease-fire and sealed its border with Gaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle over Gaza | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

...Under the law, the descendants have until December 2010 to present themselves at the Spanish embassy in their home country and turn in documentation that proves their parents or grandparents fled Spain between 1936 and 1955. They do not need to relinquish their current citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 500,000 New Citizens for Spain? | 12/29/2008 | See Source »

...never wear, or the politically incorrect diamond she'll feel guilty owning. Instead, give your honey the world, or at least to a small chunk of it. Now's the time to take advantage of cheap hotel and airline deals for the new year - and plan a present your partner won't soon forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Your Partner? Send Him Away! | 12/26/2008 | See Source »

...those who tuned in to local broadcaster WPIX would face an hour and a half of nothing, followed by a roller derby at 11:30. WPIX president Fred Thrower had a suggestion: the station would announce the cancellation of all its programming that evening "in order to present a WPIX Christmas card to our viewers." (The roller derby, Thrower noted, "we can easily knock out.") That Christmas card, he proposed in a November 1966 memo, would be a closeup shot of a cheery fireplace, complete with Christmas stockings and flaming Yule logs, "which would be repeated (via a looping process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yule Log | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

...Nicholas's "name day," Dec. 6, coincides with the end of harvest and slaughter season in many European countries and becomes a favorite holiday to observe, especially in Holland, where he is known as "Sinterklaas." Kids leave their shoes out in the hopes that he will bring them a present. Nicholas has perfected his ability to tell naughty from nice by this time: Good children get a toy or candy; bad children receive a switch (with which they can be beaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Santa Claus | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

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