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Richards has discovered the lure that since time immemorial has drawn comedians, young and old, to the spotlight. "I get to say whatever the hell I want, as long as it gets laughs," he says. "It's also cathartic for me, since I can get things off my chest and deal with the craziness in our world through humor...
...even as the White House tries to recover, the problems from last week won't go away quickly. Though Rove has not been indicted, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is continuing the investigation, and the situation will once again be under the spotlight on Thursday, when Lewis Libby is arraigned. Because of the roles Rove and Libby played in the CIA leak case, and the White House's sluggish performance in the last weeks, some Republicans are saying Bush needs to get new advisers. Kenneth Duberstein, who served as Reagan's chief of staff, said on NBC's Meet the Press...
...caught Osama bin Laden?" is that we took on Iraq before the job in Afghanistan was truly finished. The U.S.'s monetary and human resources are stretched too thin for either task to be completed anytime soon. For far too long, Afghanistan has been pushed out of the spotlight. I hope our mission there will regain the attention it needs so we can be successful in that country in the not too distant future. Renee Masilon Darmstadt, Germany...
Since becoming the editor of TIME in 2001, I've considered it a crucial part of TIME's mandate to cast its commanding spotlight on problems that transcend borders, whether they be disease, poverty, genocide or global warming. These are not topics that make for easy conversation at the dinner table, but it is a conversation we must have with one another if we are to leave our children--and their children--a world worth living...
...kaleidoscopic shards of information on underground trading, from music piracy to nuclear smuggling. The result is like a photo negative of Thomas Friedman's books (most recently, this year's The Earth is Flat) focusing on the happier aspects of globalization. The usual suspects are back in the spotlight: expanding free markets, the Internet, and the geopolitical fragmentation that followed the end of the Cold War. But in Na?m's version of the story, these changes?which in Friedman's telling are supposed to usher in a new, more enlightened global order?have become accessories to vice. In the 1990s...