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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...saccharine of pop songs can. The band slows down the tempo and Cuomo sings with a whiney twinge to his voice, as if trying to emulate the style of the “Put Me Back Together” co-writers Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects. “I Don’t Want to Let You Go” sounds uncannily similar to Hoobastank’s 2003 hit “The Reason,” relying on a simple piano melody and slowly heightening vocal theme to convince an unnamed woman...

Author: By Renee G. Stern, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Weezer | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

Race to the Top is a part of the broader American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. While it constitutes only a small fraction of the $96.8 billion allocated to the Department of Education under the stimulus package, it will be money well spent...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Obama Races to Fix Education | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...American health care ranks really high in terms of the effectiveness with which way we can treat people,” Cohen said. “But it doesn’t necessarily rank high in terms of its comprehensive care, how we handle long term care, or whether—after we do something acute to try and help—we then continue to help...

Author: By Jessica L. Flakne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cancer Survivors See Higher Incidence of Suicidal Thoughts | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...media loves epidemics. Every year the public is bombarded with headlines that leverage scary acronyms like SARS, MRSA, and H5N1 to capture our attention. This alphabet soup of pandemics is part and parcel of a perennial American diet consisting of hype and overreaction to illnesses with miniscule mortality rates...

Author: By Derrick Asiedu | Title: Life in the Pen | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...Administration official tells TIME that "the key goal [is] to avoid confusion among American ambassadors and foreign partners as to who on the U.S. country team is responsible for intelligence. Clarity and consistency count. For that reason, among others, there won't be any change in the role of CIA station chiefs, who have managed the nation's overseas intelligence system for well over 60 years." The official adds, "Since the DNI was established, station chiefs have also served as DNI representatives, and that arrangement, too, will continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overseas Turf War Between the CIA and DNI Won't Die | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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