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The Obama Administration, for its part, feels as if it has no choice but to overhaul its policy. "We're in potentially a different place now with North Korea," a senior Administration official tells TIME. Obama came into office determined to close the deal George W. Bush had started to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: The Coldest War | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

"The United States is the only country that can convince Iran that it is not as threatened as it thinks it is, and that's crucial to the negotiations [over Iran's disputed enrichment program]," Niblett says. "The Obama Administration is playing it absolutely right: it is determined to convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Europe Is Talking Tougher than Obama on Iran | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

People are very vulnerable creatures. We need each other. Kindness opens us up to other people in such a way that we really acutely experience our own vulnerability. If you close yourself off, if you neither give nor accept sympathy and fellow-feeling, then a defensive [or cruel] position can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Nice Guys Should Finish First — but Don't | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

Athletics have never—ever—been my strong suit, but when I talk to my mother about Harvard, I wind up running defense. She’s coming at me with endowments and advising and “Why should you have to pay to see your...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: How I Learned to Play Football | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

Far more than his predecessor George W. Bush did, Obama has been leaning hard on Israel to halt its expansion of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories and to declare its readiness to accept a "two-state solution," meaning an Israeli and a Palestinian state living side by side. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israeli Rejection of Settlement Freeze: Trouble for Obama | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

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