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...says the mother. "You are telling us more than we have ever been told." MSS records indicate the children were transferred from the Crying Children's Adoption Agency; it claims their mother surrendered the pair because they were born out of wedlock, although the children were born a year apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stolen Children | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...specific strategy to refocus the military on Afghanistan. He backs a single-payer health-care system. But it wasn't some 10-point plan that turned Obama into a politician who fills arenas while others speak in school cafeterias. He knows that detailed policies tend to drive people apart rather than bring them together. People arrived to hear him out of fervor or mere curiosity, and they stayed for the sense of possibility. They heard rhetoric like this, from his speech claiming victory after his epic nomination battle: "If we are willing to work for it and fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Faces of Barack Obama | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...that it's not particularly conservative. I can read conservatives from an earlier era - a George Will or a Peggy Noonan - and recognize wisdom, because it has much more to do with respect for tradition and the past, and I think skepticism about being able to just take apart a society and put it back together. Because I do think that communities and nations and families aren't subject to that kind of mechanical approach to change. But when I look at Tom DeLay or some of the commentators on Fox these days, there's nothing particularly conservative about them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama on His Veep Thinking | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...father had hoped, it was Liukin's score on the high bars that ultimately set her apart. Her 7.7 level of difficulty - which only two of the Chinese gymnasts in the entire meet could match - put her too far ahead for Johnson to catch up. "When I saw her score come up, I knew I couldn't [beat it]," Johnson said, her voice shaking with emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Gymnasts Land a 1-2 Punch | 8/15/2008 | See Source »

...songs like Screams From Da Old Plantation, Urale presents Pacific culture as something to be contested, interrogated and recontextualized. "The thing I don't actually agree with," he says, "is how religion has become part of Samoa's culture. Personally, I think that culture and religion should be apart. Culture should be culture and religion should be religion. I'm just a Samoan saying what I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanic Arc | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

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