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...nomination if he ran. But I doubt Gore will run. There is a candidate in the field whom Hillary-and the Republicans-should fear. Kristol and others who doubt Senator Barack Obama can continue to talk about his lack of experience, but experience alone doesn't prove anything about a candidate's ability to serve as President. Consider a former President who, like Obama, hailed from Illinois, lacked a long career in national politics and wasn't favored to win his party's nomination. His name was Abraham Lincoln. Bo Tuerk Golden, Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...Although Zafar's life binds the narrative together, the real subject of The Last Mughal is Delhi itself. Dalrymple wants to prove that, far from being decadent and in terminal decline as is often thought, late Mughal Delhi was a thriving city, full of poets, artists and traders. Religiously eclectic, Delhi culture freely blended Hindu and Muslim influences. Although Indian nationalist memory glorifies cities along the Ganges like Kanpur as the centers of the revolt, Dalrymple suggests that Delhi was the true locus of the 1857 uprising. Drawing on contemporary accounts from the Indian and British sides, he paints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For God and Empire | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

Sweden is rare in allowing entry to any Iraqis who can prove they have just fled central and southern Iraq, no matter what their political involvement or how they reached Scandinavia, according to Swedish Migration officials. (Some Iraqis have been returned to other countries under European rules requiring refugees to claim asylum in the first E.U. country in which they arrive.) As a consequence, Iraqis in Sweden range from Shi'ites like Alaa, who are fleeing Sunni militia, to Sunnis who for decades belonged to the Baath Party and supported Saddam's regime. Until the volume of Iraqis began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comfort in a Cold Place | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...than pursuing them for using forged documents to enter Sweden. "They all say, 'We had illegal passports but we have thrown them away,'" says Gunn Sundberg-Hjelm, an asylum officer at the Swedish Migration Board. Other than checking their fingerprints against international databases, there is no practicable way to prove that the Iraqis are who they say they are. "We don't turn anyone back," says Sundberg-Hjelm. "Look at the circumstances they have left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comfort in a Cold Place | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...Plus” Harvfield is Harvey C. “C-Minus” Mansfield ’53 in disguise. 14) Two weeks into Drew Gilpin Faust’s history seminar, Dean Faust is made the 28th President of Harvard and expels you just to prove she can. 15) What you thought was a foreign language class is, in fact, Math...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WAYS TO TELL THAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR THE WRONG CLASS | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

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