Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Wednesday's Top News: Obama's Iraq Speech: A Difficult, But Necessary, Task

Today's Top Stories

Obama's Iraq Speech: A Difficult, But Necessary, Task

By Joe Klein

It seems this President is destined to make the toughest and most convoluted political arguments of any recent occupant of the office

Boxer vs. Fiorina: Battling for the Center in California

By Kevin O'Leary / Los Angeles

The candidates for Senator are equally combative, and both are dependent on one group of voters for victory: independents

The Ruthless Guerrilla Movement That Won't Die

By Alan Boswell / Nzara, South Sudan

Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army is supposed to be on the run and desperate. Why, then, has it spread its terror to even more countries?

Washington's Tiresome War on TV Curse Words

By Adam Cohen

In this age of cable TV and the Internet, it makes no sense to obsess over what appears on a few broadcast television stations

How I Learned to Love Farmed Fish

By Josh Ozersky

Yes, high-tech aquaculture like genetically modified salmon sounds spooky, but it might just save the world

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By Michael Scherer

The Financial Times' Martin Wolf, arguably the most important financial columnist in the world, pens a blistering appraisal of President Obama's response to the economic decline, and the Republican Party's counterfactual contention that the stimulus didn't work and tax cuts don't increase the deficit. He seems to get the politics exactly right, and I trust [...]

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Katrina: Five Years After

Half a decade has passed since the levees in New Orleans' Ninth Ward broke, flooding the city and devastating lives. TIME looks back at the stories that were told there

Quotes of the Day

"If we continue to allow the federal government to live beyond its means, we will all soon have to live below ours."
JOE MILLER,
who won the Republican primary race against Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. The lawyer from Fairbanks was backed by Tea Party activists, Sarah Palin and other conservatives
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Will Bureaucracy Fell Spain's One-Man Cathedral?

By Andrés Cala

For the past 40 years, Justo Gallego has dedicated his days to single-handedly building a full-size cathedral. But at 85, Gallego will never finish his project -- and an issue with building permits could force officials to tear down his life's work

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