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...kind of headline even war hawks in Washington wouldn't dare dream up: North Korea delivers Iran a fatal blow. But on Saturday, it happened. In a stadium in Pyongyang, the football teams of both countries ground out a turgid goalless draw. That means Iran - a nation where the public's passion for football rivals the religious fervor of its ruling mullahs - will likely miss out on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. North Korea, meanwhile, stays on course to qualify for the first time in over four decades. (See TIME's photos of North Korea going...
Sixty-five years ago today, 135,000 allied troops launched the largest seaborne invasion in history on the beaches of northern France, a move that would eventually decide the outcome of World War II. On Saturday, Obama stood with the leaders of Great Britain, France and Canada on the beach where nearly 4,000 of those men died in a single day, to praise what he called the "clarity of purpose with which the war was waged." (See TIME's video of D-Day's iconic photograph...
...leaders of free world, with Obama at the head, proclaimed their determination to carry on the memory, and apply the lessons of World War II to new circumstances. Sarkozy talked about the need to confront new challenges of "terrorism and fanaticism." "Today we are only half way to honoring the pledges to a new world," said Brown. "Darfur is in the grip of genocide. Burma is in chains. Zimbabwe is in agony...
...racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia, sexism, and more - hatred that degrades its victims and diminishes us all. In this century, we've seen genocide. We've seen mass graves and the ashes of villages burned to the ground; children used as soldiers and rape used as a weapon of war. This places teaches us that we must be ever vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not our problem and commit ourselves to resisting those who would subjugate others to serve their own interests...
...tell him that the world has learned? I am not so sure. Mr. President, we have such high hopes for you because you, with your moral vision of history, will be able and compelled to change this world into a better place, where people will stop waging war - every war is absurd and meaningless; where people will stop hating one another; where people will hate the otherness of the other rather than respect it. But the world hasn't learned. When I was liberated in 1945, April 11, by the American army, somehow many of us were convinced that...