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...Fight to End Maternal Deaths Thanks to Vivienne Walt for the thought-provoking article on maternal mortality in Freetown and the whole developing world [Sept. 29]. This issue is a priority for our people, and we will be committed to staying the course until we see results. But governments definitely have a central role. Keep up the good work! Rashid Abdulai, Freetown, Sierra Leone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...bummed (see fourth paragraph for surfing metaphor to show you how bummed I was). I did some work in my room, cried a little, consoled myself with some beer, and for the most part, was pretty distraught. But then my friends came to the rescue. “Walt, pick up your head, my mate, ‘tis not all that bad,” they said.“It is, tis,” I replied.“Well, let’s go play some pick-up, hard-nosed, crazy-faced, dragon-inspired football...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY WORLD: Backyard Football Cures All That Ails | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...approved unanimously by a majority Republican committee in the state legislature this summer, which Palin welcomed in a spirit of transparency and accountability before she became the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee. The Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee had started the inquiry when former public safety commissioner Walt Monegan alleged that he might have been dismissed for not firing the allegedly loutish state trooper Mike Wooten, who was in a bitter custody battle with Palin's sister Molly McCann and was accused of threatening members of the governor's family. The investigation has since been painted by John McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palin's Troopergate Moves Getting Bad Reviews in Alaska | 9/23/2008 | See Source »

...came in the form of Senator Hollis French, the Anchorage Democrat who is leading the investigation into whether Governor Sarah Palin abused the power of her office to get her little sister's ex-husband, state trooper Mike Wooten, fired by pressuring - and then dismissing - Commissioner of Public Safety Walt Monegan. French has been the focal point of the McCain campaign's objections to the Troopergate investigation. They say French, as a Democrat, has a partisan ax to grind. And while the mostly Republican committee had voted unanimously to start the investigation before Palin was on the McCain ticket, French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Todd Palin (Among Others) a No-Show at Troopergate Hearing | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...Republican Senator Gene Therriault, formed an impromptu spin room after French's statement, telling the cameramen and reporters who crowded around him that Oct. 10 was an "artificial deadline" and that the real question of the investigation was already solved in his mind - Palin had the right to fire Walt Monegan because he was an at-will employee. But the other question is still germane: Did Palin, her staff and her husband pressure Monegan to remove Wooten from the force? There's evidence to suggest they did, starting with Palin's own admission that there were over two dozen contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Todd Palin (Among Others) a No-Show at Troopergate Hearing | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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