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...Pakistan's Defense Your cover story on "How Pakistan Let Itself Down" did not tell a complete story [May 25]. Yes, we have mountains of problems but so have other nations in the world and we the citizens continue our life here with respect and dignity. This country is beautiful - the problem lies with the installed regimes and landed aristocracy, all kept in power by Western interests. Our democrats and demagogues backed by the West effect little. All the while, magazines like this refuse to address the larger history at play that has brought us to this mess. It seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

Indeed, for many Bosnians the religious awakening simply enriches the old city, restoring a taste of Islamic traditions rooted in more than four centuries of Ottoman rule. Yet Western and Bosnian intelligence agencies tell Time they are nonetheless concerned by a small group of local Muslim militants, who they say could have more sinister plans. That's led to a series of arrests. Rijad Rustempasic, 34, was raised in a small town in Bosnia and now lives in Sarajevo's old town. During the war he converted to Salafi Islam, a rigidly conservative branch of the religion, and joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia's Islamic Revival | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...have the exact same problem. And let me tell you something, it is way more pathetic that we have that problem than that you have that problem. We love, love, love using it. That's what she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for John Krasinski | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

When Sesame Street founder Joan Ganz Cooney met Obama at a fundraiser last year, she was prepared to hear what she always does. "I'd have bet you a million dollars," she says, "that [Obama] would tell me how his kids watched Sesame Street." But instead the President-to-be told her that he and his little sister watched the show. "I realized that this is the first President young enough to say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tickle Me Obama: Lessons from Sesame Street | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

Sesame Street's genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. The polls can tell a President what the American people want to hear, but after so many years of sandbox politics and childish games, there comes a time to grow up. Given the hard choices, does the President think we're ready to handle complexity and delay gratification? If not now, when? Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. The question remains whether President Obama will govern as though he believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tickle Me Obama: Lessons from Sesame Street | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

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