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...purposes in exchange for a series of economic and diplomatic rewards, but Tehran has ruled out renouncing that right. And Israel has repeatedly warned that if the diplomatic outreach fails, it is prepared to resort to military action to stop Iran's nuclear development. (See an interview with nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Nuclear-Free Middle East a Pipe Dream? | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...struck a luxury hotel in Jakarta, for instance, was only 18. Other key planners of the July attacks are believed to include former students at JI-linked pesantrens, or Islamic schools. In a comprehensive report released last month, the International Crisis Group (ICG), an influential terror and conflict watchdog, warned: "If officials of the [Indonesian] religious affairs ministry visit these schools, as they periodically do, and announce there is nothing amiss, it is because they are not looking in the right place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Indonesia's War on Terror Is Far From Over | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...attempt to divert attention," Sam Mohochi, executive director of the Independent Medico-Legal Unit, a human-rights watchdog, says of the firing of Ali and several other police officers. "The latest task force on police reforms has yet to compile its report, so it's like stealing the thunder and pre-empting far-reaching reforms that might be promised. To us it's a political tactic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Police Chief Fired: The Start of Reform? | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...speech "uninvited" and voiced concerns about its "content and motive." One school superintendent in Arizona, James Murlless, while calling Obama's education advocacy "well intended," said he preferred his students see it "in their own homes, under the supervision of their parents." The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, a fiscal watchdog group that has become a sort of clearinghouse for conservative grievances since the anti-health-care-reform movement began, has revved up a campaign called "Hall Pass on That," urging parents to have their kids excused from watching the speech. In Oklahoma, state senator Steve Russell rivaled Florida's Greer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Schools to Big Brother Barack: Stay Out! | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...derivative-driven innovations and massive leverage, Blankfein is the firm's chief advocate for taking risks but also its chief risk watchdog. He has a far different perspective from that of most of the previous Goldman bosses. In December 2006, Viniar led a meeting of senior Goldman executives to examine ongoing daily losses in the firm's mortgage portfolio. Goldman had already underwritten and sold billions of dollars' worth of mortgage-backed securities, much of it labeled investment grade by ratings agencies. It was, in fact, junk. But Goldman realized earlier than most that rot was setting in and famously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rage Over Goldman Sachs | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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