Month / November 9, 2010

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  • Women Leaders: Are they here to stay?

    Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Michelle Bachelet. Julia Parnell. What unites these women? They have all been elected head of state in the last ten years among other female leaders who have come to power in Chile, Argentina, Jamaica, Liberia, and Australia. Some may say that the world has finally realized the might of female abilities. Yet, most…

  • Obama returns to childhood home of Indonesia

    After departing India, President Obama arrived today in Indonesia, continuing his tour of Asia. The world’s most populous majority-Muslim nation and also where he spent 4 years of his childhood, he discussed the progress and work still needed to be done in improving shaky relations between the United States and the global Muslim community. Following…

  • Bush defends Waterboarding, Iraq

    In a rare television interview since leaving the White House in 2009, former President George W. Bush defended some of his more controversial decisions during his time in office. Speaking to NBC, he said that he believed that the use of Waterboarding on inmates at Guantanamo Bay was both legal and necessary. The interrogation method…

  • India Seems Impressed, How About Everyone Else?

    Almost a week later—and at least a world away—it looks as if things are turning slightly sunnier for Team Obama. The President’s brief hiatus in India seems to be treating him kindly, even if the midterms didn’t. This is, as has been incessantly mentioned, the most time Obama has spent in a foreign country since…