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...nation dominated for two decades by the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance. Mauricio Funes, a former television journalist and the first Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front candidate never to have served as a guerrilla commander, capitalized on voter disaffection with widespread poverty and soaring crime rates to win 51% of the vote. Funes, who styles himself as a political moderate in the mold of popular Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, pledged to unite a government still strained by the 1980-92 civil war, in which more than 70,000 people perished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...pizza is actually just last night’s dinner drenched in a copious portion of scrambled eggs? If so, you’re in luck: the UC is now raffling off tickets to behind-the-scenes tours of house kitchens, no gold wrapper required. Find out how to win a foray backstage after the jump...

Author: By Liyun Jin | Title: See How HUDS Cooks it Up...If You Dare | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...that your greatest achievement?
 
In the political field, yes. Of course, I have six children and I'm most proud of them. If you're talking about politics, it was quite an achievement because of the odds we were up against. Nobody thought we could possibly win. Everything was against us, from the media to the politicians, the whole political structure of the country, and we were able to get the law. In politics, it's more fun to win than it is to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phyllis Schlafly at 84 | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...important to remember that every defense dollar spent to overinsure against a remote or diminishing risk - or, in effect, to 'run up the score' in a capability where the United States is already dominant - is a dollar not available to take care of our people, reset the force, win the wars we are in and improve capabilities in areas where we are underinvested and potentially vulnerable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates Proposes Big Shift in Pentagon Spending | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...That's a win for Kim, and it leaves the Obama Administration forced to cajole its East Asian allies to set aside their anger and get back on the diplomatic track with Pyongyang. Bosworth, upon his appointment to the special-envoy job earlier this year, said he was under "no illusions" as to how difficult the task would be. After yesterday, it's fair to conclude that he didn't know the half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea Launch Poses Problem for Obama | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

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