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...your 10 Questions with Bobby Jindal [March 16]: If I hear another Republican politician spout the talking point that health care should be between patient and doctor and not a bureaucrat, I'm going to pull out what little hair I have left. My wife and I are self-employed. Our health-care costs eat up much of our annual income, and neither of us has a chronic illness. I would much rather have a bureaucracy deliver affordable coverage at whatever inconvenience than be squeezed dry by rapacious Republican-loving drug and insurance companies. Mark Dunn, ALBUQUERQUE...
After serving half of a 14-year jail term, Sara Jane Olson, 62, member of the '70s radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army, was released on March 17. In 2002, Olson was convicted of trying to bomb Los Angeles police cars and for her role in a deadly bank robbery...
After lobbing his shoes at George W. Bush last December--during the then U.S. President's final official visit to Iraq--Muntazer al-Zaidi, 30, a journalist turned Iraqi hero, was sentenced to three years in jail on March 12. Al-Zaidi declared that his actions were patriotic and just...
...Tehran A Reformer Withdraws Former President Mohammed Khatami dropped out of Iran's presidential race on March 17 to avoid splitting the pro-reform vote in upcoming elections. Khatami, the West's favored candidate, has thrown his support behind fellow reformist Mir-Hossein Moussavi, uniting the opposition against incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current front runner...
...Madagascar FROM CHAOS TO COUP President Marc Ravalomanana ceded power to the country's military on March 17 after soldiers stormed a presidential palace in the capital city of Antananarivo. The move followed two months of antigovernment protests--many of which were prompted by Antananarivo's ex-mayor, former DJ Andry Rajoelina, who declared himself the country's new leader. Ravalomanana accused his political rival of seizing power by illegal means (according to Madagascar's constitution, the 34-year-old Rajoelina isn't old enough to be President), while the African Union accused Rajoelina of orchestrating a coup that threatens...