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...None of those notions is new; all of them, indeed, have been discussed ad nauseam since the end of the Cold War. But Rasmussen seems to understand that if NATO does not act on such ideas soon, the irrelevance that has haunted it will become a reality. "The challenge," Rasmussen told TIME in his first sit-down interview since taking office, "is to transfer [those ideas] into political practice." (See pictures of The Cold War's Influence...
...blunter style. As Zuma prepared to depart for Zimbabwe last month, his aide (and secretary-general of his party, the African National Congress) Gwede Mantashe said Zuma "will be more vocal in terms of what we see as deviant behavior," adding all sides in Zimbabwe must understand they did not have the "luxury of adolescent behavior. You must be more mature. You must engage." (See pictures of South Africa, Fifteen Years...
...just understand that there is a level of lawlessness; there is a level of lawlessness here in the United States. It shocks me every day that there are shootings even in my neighborhood in Lexington County." -Disagreeing about violence in Iraq with South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who said the country was "on the verge of chaos." (the State (Columbia...
...conversation back into something productive. But his plainspoken case for reform failed to convince many, if any, of those wavering votes in the chamber. "I don't think the audience was in the chamber. I think the audience was in the viewing public out there, to help them understand and reset the message that health-care reform benefits everybody one way or another," said moderate Nebraska Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, standing by the Capitol in front of a bus about to take him and 16 other Democrats to the White House for a chat with the President on health care...
...event - The President: No, I understand that. I think that - I went to Ground Zero with the Republican nominee to mourn and to remember. And I think that there's no contradiction whatsoever in affirming the bonds that we have as a people as a way of recalling the sacrifices that were made that day and that continue to be made by members of our armed forces who are fighting in Afghanistan, and the military families that Michelle is working with...