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Medvedev has placed Obama in a difficult position before he has even taken office, but our President-elect now has a crucial opportunity to emerge strong. Though the shield was a brainchild of the Bush administration, it should not be thrown out with the bathwater. The Russians, meanwhile, need to...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: From Russia, With Love | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Because of poor planning and ill-prepared government agencies, the U.S. military has assumed the primary responsibility for humanitarian aid in Iraq and Afghanistan, several war veterans said at a panel in Cabot House yesterday.

Author: By William N. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Veterans Tell Stories of War | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

It was his first formal public defense and explanation of his actions since the dust settled from the financial panic of late September and early October, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had clearly been thinking about it for a while. Normally a believer in brevity, especially at press conferences, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paulson: Near The Finish Line, And Looking Like It | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

The handful of presidential scholars I talked to agreed: announcing your presidential ambitions as an undergraduate is a bad idea. But wanting it? That was a different question. “What JFK once said is that wanting to be president is not a normal ambition,” Carl...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

Look, there are a lot of hard-working people at VA hospitals, but we cannot turn our backs to the reality that the system is broken. It's totally ill prepared to accept the kind of volume that has come to them as a result of these occupations in Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Donahue | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

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