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...need of solution: a place of epidemic, hunger, genocide or coup d'etat. On Saturday, Barack Obama, the first U.S. president of African descent, came to Ghana to speak about the continent in the personal and the particular, as his own ancestral homeland for which he now offered a vision. (See TIME's photos of Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama in Ghana Preaches Unity and Action | 7/11/2009 | See Source »

...does business. The most surprising of these is that he is a vehement traditionalist, a small-c conservative, despite his opponents' best efforts to paint him as a radical. In foreign policy, this has meant a return to traditional diplomatic devices - treaties, alliances, negotiation, a global strategic vision - after the ad hoc, go-it-alone bellicosity of his predecessor. No less a high priest than Henry Kissinger recently called Obama a "chess player," which is high praise in the world of diplomacy. In domestic policy, however, it has meant an undue respect for the institution of Congress, a sclerotic body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama: Getting Down to the Hard Choices | 7/9/2009 | See Source »

...narco-killing keeps reaching record levels, and the recession-racked economy, which depends inordinately on the U.S.'s economic health, may contract by almost 8% this year. Amidst it all, the PAN's good-government image has plummeted, as its leaders and elected officials seem to have traded their vision of reforming Mexico for the same political expediency they used to decry in the PRI. (See pictures inside Mexico's drug tunnels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Mexico's Voters Turned Back to the Future | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...hardly looked like a vision of democratic perfection. One presidential candidate was the nationalist daughter of a former strongman, while the incumbent was a retired general whose in-law was just jailed for corruption. Two of the vice-presidential nominees had been accused of directing human-rights abuses during their military careers. Yet the election that took place in Indonesia on July 8 was, in fact, testament to the remarkable political experiment unfolding in the world's fourth most populous nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Elections: A Win For Democracy | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

...went to a little village called Kantiwa, up in Kunar province. It's way up there: there is no road, several hours from the closest road, and we were looking for a bad guy. And as we got up there, several things struck me. We had a vision of what it would be like, and we were planning to offer the villagers a road to the area. First thing that struck me was that there were electric lights - in the middle of nowhere. They had a little water-powered generator system. And then as we talked with them, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Interview with General Stanley McChrystal | 7/8/2009 | See Source »

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