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...Obama later backed away from his comments, claiming that his statement was “pretty straightforward commentary that you probably don’t need to handcuff a guy, a middle-aged man who uses a cane, who’s in his own home.” But the fact that the unflappable Barack Obama, even for a minute, was willing to confront uncomfortable facts about race in America shows how close to home the Gates arrest hits for the President...
...Most striking, perhaps, was Obama's failure to address head-on some of the most difficult issues. Such evasions are a common practice for Presidents, of course, but Obama is usually more straightforward, and prides himself as being too self-aware to engage in the artful dodge as comfortably as some of his predecessors...
...that can't be solved elsewhere, to determine if the earlier ruling on Abyei's boundaries was correct. Making its ruling on Wednesday, the court issued a 286-page document that, while heavy on legalistic language justifying its decision to redraw Abyei's borders, seemed to be a fairly straightforward political compromise...
...sense of ego out of the line of fire." Ban himself expresses pleasure that he has been able to lead the U.N. to take climate change seriously. But he is much more comfortable talking about his role in terms of "bridging the developed and developing countries" than in the straightforward language of leadership. (See pictures of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon...
...energy, North Korea, climate change and trade. But perhaps the President's greatest challenge during his trip will be to get the measure of Russia's two rulers. Bush famously looked into Putin's soul during their first meeting, in Slovenia in 2001, and "found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy," a judgment that quickly looked hopelessly naive. Obama will want to gauge the true nature of the Putin-Medvedev duopoly. See pictures of Putin...