Friday, November 5, 2010

Friday's Top News: Tanned, Tested, Ready: New Speaker John Boehner

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Tanned, Tested, Ready: New Speaker John Boehner

By Michael Grunwald and Jay Newton-Small

Yes, John Boehner plays a lot of golf. Yes, he has a deep tan. And yes, he hangs out with corporate lobbyists. But there's more to him than that. Meet the Washington insider who's leading the opposition

Obama's Passage to India: What He Needs to Do

By Jyoti Thottam / New Delhi

The American President has a chance to further ties that have not been so good since the 1940s. Here are four ways to do so

Sarah Palin's Alaska Is Not a Political Statement. Right.

By James Poniewozik

Mixing nature, family and politics, Sarah Palin's Alaska positions the Mama Grizzly in Chief for reality-TV fame

Could the Baghdad Carnage End Iraq's Impasse?

By Charles McDermid with Nizar Latif / Baghdad

Seven months have passed since Iraq elected a new parliament, but no new government has been formed. Will two horrific days scare the power brokers into action?

South Korea Upholds Military Ban on 'Subversive' Books

By Geoffrey Cain

Last week, South Korea's constitutional court upheld a controversial ban on 23 books that service members, under military regulations, cannot read or keep on bases

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By Joe Klein

Mitch McConnell has never been a very interesting leader or legislator. Over the past few days, he's proved himself to be a vile and graceless public figure as well. Not even the slightest hint of comity, which, I expect is an effort by this eminently establishmentarian figure to woo the Teasies. Trouble is, he's lying [...]

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After a historic midterm vote that handed Republicans control of the House and shrunk the Dems' Senate majority, TIME spotlights who and what gained or lost the most in the seismic election

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"He is a person of the Pacific, he understands these places in a way I don't know if any American president has."
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President Obama's national security adviser, speaking ahead of Obama's trip to Asia
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The War of the Olive Harvest: Palestinians vs. Settlers

By Karl Vick

In a West Bank village, Israeli settlers claiming historic ownership use an equally ancient technique to hurt their Palestinian neighbors. The battle over olive orchards

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