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...what he said! Well, you defended Limbaugh for his drug use! What about Bill Clinton! What about Newt Gingrich! Dan Rather! Mel Gibson! On and on, back through time, like warring ethnic clans tracing the righteousness of their spite to payback for the reprisal for an atrocity in the 13th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Dave Letterman Survive the Scandal? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Radcliffe’s top-two heavyweight boats competed in a field of 32 entries, with the first varsity eight finishing 13th in 17:24.968 and the Black and White’s second varsity eight boat placing 22nd...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Radcliffe Crews Find Varying Degrees of Success on Charles | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Plight of the Pilgrims The Moses story opens in the 13th century B.C.E. with the Israelites enslaved in Egypt. After the pharaoh orders the slaughter of all Israelite male babies, Moses is floated down the Nile, picked up by the pharaoh's daughter and raised in the palace. An adult Moses murders an Egyptian for beating "one of his kinsmen," then flees to the desert, where, later, a voice in a burning bush recruits him to free the Israelites. This moment represents Moses' first leadership test: Will he cling to his unburdened life or attempt to free a people enslaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Yale is now razing buildings for real, to make way for their 13th and 14th residential colleges. As of Tuesday, the 119-year-old Daniel Cady Eaton house is now no more...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies Plus | 10/10/2009 | See Source »

...Socialist Party of America, was convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 for distributing leaflets that urged men to resist the draft. In the famous case Schenck v. the United States, Schenck argued (unsuccessfully) that conscription was the equivalent of "involuntary servitude" and thus prohibited by the 13th Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiwar Movements in the U.S. | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

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