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DAVID FURST/AFP/Getty Images Mikey Weinstein’s Crusade
Meet the man who's trying to purge evangelical Christianity from the Pentagon.
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Flikr, Creative Commons President Spandex?
The man who once mooned an auditorium of students, dressed up as a superhero to teach civics lessons, and cleaned up Bogotá while he was at it just might become Colombia's next president.
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GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images Can South Africa’s Bungling Ex-President Save Darfur?
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki tries to rewrite the history of his diplomatic career.
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575922_Keynes2.jpg Keynes: The Return of the Master
Keynesian economics made a brilliant comeback in 2009. It's little wonder why.
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Al Qaeda’s Dissident
How the prison writings of Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, one of al Qaeda's founders now labeled a turn coat, are doing more to expose the terrorist group's hypocrisy than anyone else.
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SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images My Nights With Hamid
The world is hounding the Afghan president to crack down on corruption and kick out entrenched warlords. I don't think he's going to do it, and I should know: I’m the man who wrote his autobiography.
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MICHAL CIZEK/AFP/Getty Images The Other Vaclav
How the Czech president became Europe's public enemy number one.
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GERARD CERLES/AFP/Getty Images Sarkozy’s Better Half
If the French president has a hope of getting things done at the G-20, it's because of his philosophic finance minister, Christine Lagarde.
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Courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute Was Irving Kristol a Neoconservative?
The "godfather" of neoconservatism started a movement that moved away from him.
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Mario Tama/Getty Images Obama’s Eminence Grise
For decades, George Mitchell has worked, quietly and diligently, on Washington's most intractable political problems. This week, he shows his cards on Middle East peace.
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AFP/Getty Images Fogh of War
Is the new secretary-general of NATO a slippery opportunist or just a good negotiator?
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SERGEI VELICHKIN/AFP/Getty Images The Real Winner of Afghanistan’s Election
Meet Mohammad Qasim Fahim, the unsavory Tajik warlord whose grip on Afghanistan just got a whole lot tighter.
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YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images Japan’s New Shadow Shogun
A mercurial longtime powerbroker, now disgraced, is behind the rise of Japan's opposition party.
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Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images Ain’t No Sunshine
Kim Dae-jung may have been a democrat, but the late South Korean president was no saint. His true legacy will be one of utter failure in dealing with his northern neighbor.
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Mubarak: Anwar Amro/AFP/Getty Images; Suleiman: Hussein Hussein/PPO/Getty Images Egypt’s Next Strongman
Meet the two men most likely to succeed Egypt’s aging president: His son, Gamal Mubarak, and his spy chief, Omar Suleiman. But does either one really represent desperately needed change?
