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...Good for the South Side, It's Good for the World Nothing has been more central to the President's foreign policy approach than the theoretical lessons he learned as a community organizer in Chicago: listen to different views, understand the various motivations and then focus on the commonalities, not the differences. He repeats these refrains everywhere he goes. "The United States and Russia have more in common than they have differences," Obama said last week, shortly after meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in the Kremlin. At an April press conference in Trinidad, the President elaborated on his thinking...
...state's $27 billion budget and will be effective Aug. 1, Massachusetts' sales tax is still relatively low compared to that in other states. Massachusetts first implemented a sales tax of 3 percent in 1966 and raised it to 5 percent in 1976, where it has remained since. Various essential goods, including clothing that costs less than $175 and unprepared food products, are exempt from sales...
...patchwork of motivations based on tribal allegiances, Islamic fundamentalism and the strategies of warlords eager to keep what has been theirs for generations. "I am not sure," McChrystal says, "there are two different people out there with the same reason for the fight." He has to untangle the various threads in this skein and then determine what action - economic development, strong government, death - works best in each case. (Read "Why the Pentagon Axed Its Afghanistan Warlord...
...between stints with various special-operations units, McChrystal pulled tours at the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard. Before coming to the Pentagon, he spent 2003 to 2008 heading up the Joint Special Operations Command, the secret corps of Army Delta Force and Navy Seals based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, although McChrystal deployed regularly to its forward post inside Iraq. In 2006 his unit succeeded in tracking down and killing Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. McChrystal's record has not been without controversy. After the 2004 death by friendly fire of former...
...question remains: who's going to pick up the tab? The city of Los Angeles spent about $1.4 million on all aspects of the memorial, city officials announced yesterday. This includes cleanup, traffic-diversion costs and overtime pay for the more than 4,000 police officers asked to secure various venues. That's good news in view of the $2.5 million - $4 million estimates, and it's less than June's Los Angeles Lakers' pride parade, which cost $2 million. (See TIME's top 10 Michael Jackson moments...