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...change, which goes into effect this week, is the latest in Spain's ongoing efforts to atone for its past mistakes. As part of the 2007 Law of Historical Memory, the Spanish government will now offer citizenship to anyone who can prove that his or her parents or grandparents went into exile during the war and the first decades of the dictatorship that followed. According to the Spanish government, some 500,000 around the globe are eligible. (Read TIME's top 10 news stories of the year...
...miles away, in Bhutto's country home, her widower and political heir mounted a platform to deal with the implications of the other large movement of people. He warned against war and appealed for peace through dialogue. "War," President Asif Ali Zardari said in a live televised address, would prove disastrous for "the whole region." Dressed in a long black coat and gripping the podium firmly with both hands, an unsmiling Zardari pushed back against what has over recent weeks been seen in Pakistan as pressure from Washington and New Delhi. "I want to tell the oldest democracy...
...born Oct. 10, 1930, in Hackney, London, into what he called "a very respectable, Jewish, lower-middle-class family"; his father Jack was a ladies' tailor. At Hackney Downs School, perceptive teachers nurtured Harold's talent for writing. He was also mad for sports, especially cricket, which would prove a lifelong passion. In his 50s he said that his "three main interests" were family, work and cricket...
...spend hundreds of dollars a week on my various dating efforts, whereas now, I only spend $50 a month on online dating, and I'm pretty much guaranteed success." That last part may sound a bit cocky, but there are plenty of women out there who are ready to prove him right...
...President's box at the Kennedy Center. This pointed us toward Alexander Haig, who before becoming Nixon's last chief of staff was military assistant to Henry Kissinger at the NSC. Haig repeatedly denied being Deep Throat, but we never quite believed him. Realizing we couldn't actually prove the connection without Woodward or Deep Throat himself confirming it, we gave up the hunt...