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Emerging from a hastily called U.N. Security Council session on North Korea's nuclear test, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton sounded oddly optimistic. "I was very impressed by the unanimity of the council," Bolton told reporters, "... on the need for a strong and swift answer to what everyone agreed amounted to a threat to international peace and security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafting a Collective Response | 10/9/2006 | See Source »

...turns out to be the least obvious of the many Kerry mistakes ticked off by consultants on both sides. There was the decision not to go negative. (Mocked by Paul Begala with an eye-roll worthy of Paul Lynde.) There was the decision not to respond immediately to the Swift Boats for Truth ads ("John Kerry should have gotten pissed" says one former volunteer). There was the decision to leave get-out-the-vote operations to independent groups - known as 527s - rather than let the central operation mastermind the whole thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ...So Goes the Nation | 10/7/2006 | See Source »

...swift approval of the review—conducted mostly out of sight and with no public dissent among faculty members—also bodes well for Kagan, who is considered a leading candidate for Harvard’s presidency. By comparison, the undergraduate curricular review at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has dragged on for four years—with no clear end in sight...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Law Profs Overhaul 1st Year Courses | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...Behind Foley's Swift Fall From Grace Thanks to his previous work against pedophiles, the Florida congressman who sent possibly inappropriate e-mails to a teenager had little choice but to resign. Now the G.O.P. has yet another vulnerable seat to defend

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Close the Book on Washington Pages? | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...Behind Foley's Swift Fall From Grace Thanks to his previous work against pedophiles, the Florida congressman who sent possibly inappropriate e-mails to a teenager had little choice but to resign. Now the G.O.P. has yet another vulnerable seat to defend

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Right-Wing Rebellion on the Foley Scandal | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

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