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...Though Tribe said that he would back Sen. Hillary Clinton if she prevails in winning the Democratic Party's nomination for president, he has championed Obama's cause for quite some time...
...been involved with him from the time he graduated from Harvard Law," Tribe said. "Barack is enormously mature, brilliant, and inspiring in his commitment to make people's lives better and to the American ideal in its best form...
Building on an already politicized career, Harvard Law School Professor Laurence H. Tribe '62 recently appeared in one of the first presidential campaign advertisements for Sen. Barack Obama, hoping to help bolster support in the primaries for his former student...
...conversations and then blossomed into love. Since neither has a landline, their romance was conducted entirely by cell phone, with Ali spending a third of his $250 monthly salary on phone cards. Meeting was not an option. Though they are both Sunnis, he comes from a predominantly Shi'ite tribe, which might make him guilty by association in the eyes of the fanatics who control the streets of Dora. (The names of several people in this story have been changed at their request to protect their identities.) When Ali proposed last fall, they had still not seen each other since...
...formerly the most dangerous province in the country, an area famously described as "lost" to the terrorists in a Marine intelligence report leaked to the press in 2006. "Actually, the first tentative steps in Anbar were taken in 2005," Petraeus told me over dinner one evening. "The Abu Mahal tribe out by the Syrian border turned against al-Qaeda and fought hard - but pretty soon there were five or six dead sheiks." Not just dead, apparently - beheaded and left in the street. "Over time, the word began to get around among the other tribes that al-Qaeda was not only...