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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Will Ahmed has almost fully recovered and he showed it by winning a match today,” Bajwa said...

Author: By Brian A. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Cruises To Third-Straight Win | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...more worried about unemployment, which is at a 26-year high of 10.2%. And so, even as the economy seems to have stabilized and priorities such as health care, climate change and Afghanistan fight for a dwindling pool of federal money, there's one piece of legislation that is almost certain to get passed: some form of a jobs bill. (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession - and after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...bills," says a Senate Democratic leadership aide. "There's money in them for projects that will create jobs." Indeed, if tradition holds, many of these jobs provisions will get loaded on the back of the annual defense appropriations bill - typically the last bill passed in the year. After all, almost no member of Congress is willing to vote against funding the troops, even if some of that money finds its way back to help civilians at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Looks Toward a Jobs Stimulus | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...achieved reflexively - it was the obvious human reaction after the Sept. 11 attacks. But such unity is difficult to sustain. And it cannot be reignited by mere words or argument, even when the argument and the policy is, I believe, the correct one. The exquisite rationality that attends almost everything this President does is essential, but not enough, when sending young men and women into battle. There needs to be inspiration as well. There is no such thing as a no-drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: Can Obama Sell America on This War? | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

...between the haves and the have-nots in North Korea, partly due to the prevalence of relatively free markets, says Cheong Seong-chang, senior fellow at the Sejong Institute, a think tank in Seoul. Since 2000, the bigger traders in North Korea have come to live a life "almost as lavish as South Koreans," says Cheong. "They have big refrigerators, color televisions, DVD players." In a socialist utopia like North Korea, such economic divides are unacceptable; the currency change would reduce inequality by making a broad swath of the North Korean population poorer. (See pictures of North Korea's rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic 'Reform' in North Korea: Nuking the Won | 12/3/2009 | See Source »

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