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...Moreover, because the U.S. is so powerful, its national system of government is to an extent a world government. The periodic horse-trading between Congress, Administration and lobbyists over the budget, size and shape of the U.S. armed forces, for example, has impacts far from America's shores. (Read: "Vicki Kennedy: The Woman who Saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Kennedy: An American Legislator | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Honduras' neighbors, El Salvador and Guatemala, recently elected leftist presidents who could also find themselves in the crosshairs of their countries' overweening generals. "I think the armies and the business elites they back in those countries are watching the Obama Administration's moves on Honduras very closely," says Vicki Gass, a senior associate at the independent Washington Office on Latin America. While Gass applauds Clinton's threat to reject Honduras' November election results as a "very positive step that shows the U.S. is serious again about multilateral effort in Latin America," she fears the U.S. has "created risks in other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Won't Use the M-Word for Honduras' Coup | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...Vicki Kennedy: the woman who saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Nation's Fallen, Kennedy Is Laid to Rest | 8/29/2009 | See Source »

...Kerry says Kennedy, though physically absent the last seven months, was actually very involved in health-care policy, whether through his staff, other Senators or his wife Victoria. "He sat down with his staff and Vicki and others, and he said, 'O.K., we're going to get so-and-so to do this, and we're going to work with [Maryland Democratic Senator Barbara] Mikulski on higher education to do that,' and sort of divvied it up. He talked to [Connecticut Democratic Senator] Chris Dodd. He laid it out, he weighed in," Kerry says. "If Teddy was in treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kerry Prepares to Protect Kennedy's Legacy | 8/29/2009 | See Source »

...religion. One week after the 2004 election, he placed a call to the left-leaning Evangelical leader Jim Wallis. "They're saying we're not religious," Kennedy told Wallis. "But we know that's not true." Wallis spent an evening at the Kennedy home, talking with the Senator and Vicki, and left surprised by what he heard. "I'd never heard Ted Kennedy speak publicly about his faith the way some other politicians do," Wallis recalls now. "But the conversation was very personal and very theological - we talked about Scripture and Catholic social teaching and moral issues, including abortion." Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ted Kennedy's Quiet Catholic Faith | 8/27/2009 | See Source »

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