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While claiming he personally respects Karzai, Abdullah focuses on how little the President has been able to achieve in the past seven years (as both a nominated interim leader and an elected President) and promises that he will put an end to corruption and injustice. "Give me the power, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karzai's Challenger Dr. Abdullah Abdullah | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

The White House has not expressed a preference between Fort Leavenworth and Standish. "I don't know to the degree to which [the task force has] gotten into specific siting, and certainly no final decisions of any sort have been made," spokesman Robert Gibbs told journalists on Aug. 3.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Gitmo Proposal Draws Wide Range of Critics | 8/4/2009 | See Source »

“In the past, there were always physicists and mathematicians who came into biology…. But they essentially had to abandon their previous fields completely,” Kirschner said. “Now, there are many important questions in biology that require very specific quantitative and...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: King, Kirschner Named University Professors | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

As long ago as 1982, the economist Mancur Olson made the argument, in The Rise and Decline of Nations, that as a democracy matures, special interests grow more entrenched. Their intense dedication to their own specific needs, Olson wrote, often trumps the broader, but less focused, interests of society. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Special Interests Stymie Health-Care Reform? | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

Well, of all the big decisions that you've made strategically, one of the most important was really to lay out the broad principles and let Congress figure out how to get there. Could you talk to me a little bit about how and when you made that decision, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Exclusive Interview with President Obama | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

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