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Throughout his brief political career, Obama has presented himself as someone who, as Frank Rich wrote in The New York Times, “can be all things to all people.” He is proud of his background but, like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, has not made an issue out of his racial identity. If citizens aren’t making an issue out of it, does that mean that we are finally realizing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream that all people, including political candidates, will “not be judged...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has admitted that the U.S. made "thousands of mistakes" in Iraq. But here in the region, there's little sign that the Americans have learned from those mistakes and tried to correct them. There is a widespread view in these parts that the Bush Administration pushed the Israelis to go to war against Hizballah even though the Israelis were clearly not prepared for the campaign. The result, of course, was that Hizballah and its allies have been strengthened politically, while the U.S. and its supporters in the region have been weakened...
...Rice's North Korea Sanctions Mission Is No Slam-Dunk Analysis: Sure, China has agreed to block any trade with its neighbor's weapons programs. But its priorities are to engage Pyongyang and restart nuclear diplomacy - not necessarily the same as those...
...central China, for example, officials from Beijing visited earlier this year and promised a clean-up after a campaign by local activists drew national media attention to the cocktail of pollutants including chromium, benzene and volatilized phenol that had poisoned wells and, in at least one village, caused rice to stop growing and cancer rates to spike. But just last month, a tributary of the Tangbai was so polluted that when a TIME reporter drove by, hundreds of people stood along the banks of a stream with a powerful chemical stench, pulling out dead and dying fish. According...
...promising startups like Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif., which is bioengineering microbes that produce alternative fuels, and teaming up with Bill Gates and Sir Richard Branson to build ethanol refineries. Instead of corn, their "cellulosic" ethanol will come from non-edible plant matter like grasses, algae, wood chips and rice hulls. Biofuels, an area Khosla is betting heavily on, is expected to be a $52 billion market by 2015, up from $15 billion today. In another project, Khosla and former President Bill Clinton are working to raise over $1 billion dollars for a profit-seeking "Green Fund...