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...literal truth of religious texts is "too credulous to be President" [Sept 17]. That would apply to a number of our past Presidents. It sounds like Kinsley thinks you can't be a good President unless you are in line with Kinsley's personal preferences. Robert Gibbons, Alexandria, Virginia...
...Gupta, chairman of the board of the India School of Business; Amina J. Ibrahim, senior special assistant to the president of Nigeria; Kavita N. Ramdas, president of the Global Fund for Women; Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico; and Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia...
...Levin and Reed believe that with the return of Senator Tim Johnson of South Dakota, their measure will start with a baseline of 53 Senators, assuming no one changes his or her mind, as Virginia Senator John Warner did earlier this week on Jim Webb's proposal to limit the length of troop deployments overseas...
...Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, who proposed the bill, has more personal experience with this issue than most politicians; his son is a Marine who has served in Iraq. However, Webb's proposal is not a humanitarian act: It is part of a political strategy. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said that the plan is not a "backdoor" method for reducing the American troop presence in Iraq, but that's exactly what it is. The only way to give soldiers and Marines more time in the U.S. is to reduce the total number of troops in Iraq at any given time...
...Court, Jeffrey Toobin proves again that he is one of the sharpest court watchers in America. Based on rare interviews with the Justices, Toobin, the legal correspondent for CNN and The New Yorker, traces the extreme rightward turn that the high court has taken under George W. Bush. Yes, Virginia: the Supreme Court reads the election returns. TIME's publishing reporter, Andrea Sachs, caught up with Toobin just as his book hit the shelves...