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...which, Devil in a Blue Dress, was made into a Denzel Washington film) before retiring him in 2007. His latest private eye, former mob crook Leonid McGill, stars in the new novel Known to Evil, the second in what Mosley hopes will be a 10-book series. Mosley spoke with TIME about why he doesn't read mystery novels, the importance of character names, and why he never benefits from inspiration...
Richard Parker, a lecturer in public policy and senior fellow of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, spoke of what he called the “pain of the financial meltdown...
...Obama spoke to the Representatives about why he and they had become politicians, and why they had become Democrats. He talked about all the town meetings and compromises, the long hours, the lumps and brickbats, the time spent away from their families. "And maybe there have been times where you asked yourself, Why did I ever get involved in politics in the first place? ... But you know what? Every once in a while, you have a chance to vindicate all those best hopes you had about yourself ... And this is one of those moments. This is one of those times...
...votes were undoubtedly there by the time the President spoke, but the speech solidified him in his party's esteem - just as the vote would anchor him in history. Obama became a very different President in the process. After a first year in office that promised consequence but never quite delivered on it, he had done something huge. The comparisons with Jimmy Carter would abruptly come to an end. He was now a President who didn't back down, who could herd cats, who was not merely intellectual and idealistic but tough enough to force his way. This is bound...
...scholar of Chinese foreign policy and author of the recent book China and India: Prospects for Peace, is among a growing number of observers who have dismissed the idea of "Chindia" - a term once often invoked, expressing optimism over the joint geopolitical rise of the two Asian giants. He spoke to TIME about the fault lines between the two neighbors, Washington's place in the region and how tensions could escalate into...