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...passion. The public was seduced: the book has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, and was translated into 37 languages. Many books later, and now the grandmother of three, Jong has returned to her original calling, poetry, in her compelling new volume of poems, Love Comes First. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached the author at her Manhattan home...
...front of television cameras than is Snowe, who often looks for a side staircase where she can sneak away from the klieg lights. Though they typically work in tandem for their state, they do so in very different ways, just as they have on the stimulus negotiations. Snowe, a senior member of the Finance Committee, worked on the tax provisions; Collins, recently named to the Appropriations Committee, focused on spending. Collins, who voted for the George W. Bush tax cuts, is a half-turn more conservative than senior Senator Snowe, who did not. Both women are accomplished fund-raisers...
...unemployed workers and extends aid for their health insurance. Ninety billion dollars will go toward shoring up Medicaid, $19 billion is allocated for Obama's "down payment" on modernizing health-care records - short of the $25 billion he originally envisioned - and onetime payments of $250 will be made for senior citizens, disabled veterans and disabled workers...
...strong action against the militias; in Basra, messages of national unity played better with the electorate than did religious or sectarian appeals. "We have a new breed of politicians who can take Basra into a new phase," says Emad al-Battat, the representative to Basra of Iraq's most senior Shi'a cleric, Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. "The fact that Iraqis chose secular politicians over religious ones does not mean Iraq has become any less religious. But the top priority of the Iraqi people is national unity...
...Some part of the conspiracy has taken place in Pakistan," Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad on Thursday, marking a significant climbdown for the government. Less than two weeks ago, one of Pakistan's most senior diplomats had claimed the opposite. Pakistani officials attribute the change to information turned up by the Federal Investigation Agency, Pakistan's equivalent of the FBI. Drawing on leads furnished last month by New Delhi, Malik laid out a narrative of events that largely concurs with the Indian version. (See pictures of Mumbai in recovery...