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...ambassador to Saudi Arabia who can speak Arabic and explain America’s actions in a hostile region. It means having an ambassador to the United Kingdom who will engage a cynical British public in open debate. More than anything it means taking seriously once more how we select the bearers of the American eagle abroad...
...help make the selection, TIME asked earlier honorees whom they would select as the world's most influential people. The final installment...
...noble goal; therefore, humanitarian aid should continue to flow through organizations such as the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Following the attacks, Israel could have launched a campaign of retribution and broad destruction of Palestinian infrastructure. Rather, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took measured steps to stop travel in select, dangerous areas of the West Bank and to target only leaders of Islamic Jihad. This is the type of restraint that needs to be shown on both sides of the conflict in order for true peace to eventually emerge. It is unacceptable for Hamas to allow Islamic Jihad and other...
...choice of Jim Lehrer as this year’s Commencement Day speaker. “[Jim Lehrer] is an insightful journalist...I only wish we had someone more inspirational,” said Todd Van Stolk-Riley ’06 of this year’s speaker selection. Van Stolk-Riley added that he “would have preferred Bill Clinton.” But Clinton has already accepted an offer to serve as Princeton University’s Class Day speaker. According to the Daily Princetonian, Princeton had been working to bring Clinton to Class...
...Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari announced Thursday that he would refer his nomination for a second term back to the United Iraqi Alliance, the dominant Shi'ite bloc in the new legislature. That opens the way for the Alliance to select a new candidate and break the deadlock created by the refusal of the Kurdish, Sunni and secular blocs, backed by the U.S., to accept a second Jaafari term...