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You were a candidate for President once yourself. What would you be doing differently now if you were in that position? I wouldn't want to be President now! No, I'll tell you, I would follow the same course that George Bush No. 1 did: I would set up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Robertson, Financial Adviser | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

"In the days leading up to this nomination, there were several media reports suggesting that Judge Sotomayor should not be considered for this position simply because she has Type 1 diabetes," said Dr. R. Paul Robertson, president of the American Diabetes Association, in a statement following Sotomayor's nomination. "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sotomayor's Diabetes: Will It Be a Handicap? | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

Interestingly, seven years ago, Sotomayor decided against an abortion-rights group that attempted to challenge the federal ban - since lifted by President Obama - on funding to international family-planning groups that provide abortions. In a ruling to uphold a lower-court's decision that threw out the case, Sotomayor wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Moderately Liberal Mind of Sonia Sotomayor | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

The easing of tensions has come about in part because Ma, a Harvard Law School graduate and former Taipei mayor, is a far more palatable politician to Beijing than his more confrontational predecessor, Chen Shui-bian. China's leaders ultimately want the island and the mainland to reunite. During his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building Bridges to China | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

Egypt is not a BRIC nation, which may make Boutros-Ghali the ideal man for the position, says Desmond Lachman, an expert on multilateral lending institutions at the American Enterprise Institute: "If the Chinese wanted [the chair of the policy committee], there would have been friction with other emerging economies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boutros-Ghali's Developing Vision for the IMF | 5/25/2009 | See Source »

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