en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:36:58 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Andrew Sullivan Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-06-27T08:00:04Z So what now? Barack Obama began his presidency with a broad strategy for the Middle East that included some kind of outreach to Iran, offering real inclusion into the international system in exchange for verifiable abandonment of nuclear weapons and cessation of terror sponsorship. The strategy was classic Obama: he laid out the terms clearly in advance and waited for his interlocutor to respond. The Cairo speech this month was the culmination of the charm offensive — a direct appeal to the people of Iran to turn their country around to a more responsible and peaceful path. Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT 2009-06-13T08:41:23Z Reading may seem the simplest of activities – eyes; words; brain. But, like eating, it gets much more complicated when you look at it more closely. The way you eat a Sunday lunch and the way you eat a sandwich at your desk at work bear only a faint resemblance to one another; the TV dinner at home is not the candlelit date; breakfast is not lunch.