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...choosing former campaign communications director Robert Gibbs as his new White House Press Secretary, Barack Obama tapped an ultra-loyalist who has spent the past few years wedded to the candidate's side. Very few staffers are as close to Obama, so much so that campaign spokeswoman Linda Douglass has referred to Gibbs as "the Barack Whisperer." (Read "Inside Obama's Idea Factory in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Gibbs | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...Born in Auburn, Alabama to two university librarians. His mother Nancy Gibbs would take young Robert along with her while she worked with the League of Women Voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Gibbs | 12/1/2008 | See Source »

...hinterland in a lightning advance and seizes power is a familiar one, from Nkunda's native Democratic Republic of Congo to the Comoros Islands. Sometimes, as with Paul Kagame in Rwanda or with Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, the new leaders are an improvement. But in other cases, as with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe or Laurent Kabila, the assassinated father of the current Congolese president, they quickly impose the autocracy and corruption they were initially fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be (Congo's) King | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

...wall.” “I couldn’t read much on the ‘wall,’ but I don’t approve of Duffy’s decision to suspend the YPMB,” said Robert J. Tunney IV, a sophomore at Yale. “Whatever was written on the wall, I’m sure worse was said in the stands.” “I think that this incident is being blown out of proportion,” Robert B. Williams III, a freshman at Yale...

Author: By Paul C. Mathis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Band Punished for Half-Time Show | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...With reporting by Robert Horn/Bangkok...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand's Political Crisis Becomes a Global One | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

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