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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hero Rigoberto Lopez Perez, who assassinated former dictator Anastasio Somoza Garcia, but dissidents paint graffiti with the message "Rigoberto come back!" to underscore the strength of their disdain for the current president. While the government plasters the country with posters touting Ortega's fealty to Sandino, anti-government protesters wave signs proclaiming "Sandino would never have been a Danielista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaraguans Fight Over Who Owns a Powerful Hat | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...fatherland of Germany's largest minority, a 2.5 million strong community descended from gastarbeiter who were invited to what was then West Germany from Turkey as laborers in the 1960s. For Wednesday night's game, Turkish fans gathered across Germany in neighborhoods like Berlin's Kreuzberg to wave the crimson flag (Turkey itself was awash in red) and root for their team. The Turkish President, Abdullah Gul, traveled to Basel for the game, sitting a seat away from the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, both heads of state grinning happily when their team scored and theatrically remonstrating with the referee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whom Will the Turks Cheer Now? | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...people can get to content directly without worrying about the social mores of the network operator," he says, referring to carriers like Canada's Telus, which canceled an experimental adult-content offer after receiving hundreds of customer complaints. That means better margins for direct porn providers amid this potential wave of new profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...they both hope tougher sanctions will pull Iran to heel. But the similarities go deeper than that. At their first meeting last July, Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power. Brown, by contrast, was buoyed by an early wave of public support after taking over from Tony Blair. Now Brown faces plunging poll ratings and speculation in Westminster about ouster plots. Bush is asserting himself with renewed vigor at home and abroad, but intense interest in the race for the White House provides a daily reminder that his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving Europe, Bush Eyes Legacy | 6/17/2008 | See Source »

...strategy, to say, "Let's engage in retribution." The MDC has never said that we're going to engage in a retributive agenda. We had reached a point where we had said, "Let's let bygones be bygones, for the country to move forward." But now, with the current wave of violence that is taking place, I don't know what position one can take because these killings are really being sponsored by the military - the very same people who should have considered not to proceed on this genocide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mugabe Foe: The Runoff Must Proceed | 6/13/2008 | See Source »

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