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...just about everyone else. Back in the 1980s, Japan was the first of Asia's rising powers, a nation that seemed destined to overtake the U.S. as the dynamic force of the global economy. Experts looked to Japan in search of guidance that could rejuvenate an America that, many thought, had lost...
...start fighting for its beliefs." Simon Robinson's story, accompanied by an interview with Europe's new Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton and an impassioned column by Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, prompted readers and European leaders alike to write. Some thought our assessment was spot on, plenty that we had got it all wrong. To encourage further debate, we publish here a selection of views. Michael Elliott, EDITOR, TIME INTERNATIONAL...
...prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York, who specialize in terrorism," Obama said after the announcement. In private he was even more supportive of Holder. When Obama met with Graham in early December, the Senator laid out his case against civilian trials. But the President said he thought Holder had the better side of the argument. "I just agreed to disagree with the President on that issue," Graham told TIME...
...would execute six people who had participated in a December protest. The sentence was announced one day before the start of the Feast of Fire festival, public celebration of which has been banned since the 1979 revolution, when it was denounced as un-Islamic. The announcement's timing was thought to be a warning to the opposition not to use the occasion to stage additional demonstrations. Although droves of dissidents defied the ban by celebrating in the streets of Tehran, analysts predict that the death sentences may force opposition leaders to rethink their protest strategy...
...We’ve been a little streaky, up and down in the games before that,” coach Lisa Miller said. “I thought against Cornell we were consistent and disciplined. We just executed the game plan and the small things, and we did it for most of the game. Hopefully we learn from that and we take it into the next game...