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...Sipping tea in another Burmese town, I listened as a companion recalled his favorite line from the U.S. presidential inaugural address by John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words took on a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up the challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Burma, Even a Sham Election Is a Cause for Hope | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...life—family, friends, teachers, neighbors, Best-Buy employees—with arresting honesty. Vicki Donald, Grayson’s mother, is an avid pro-life Catholic who teaches high school Calculus. She is overweight and in her food-diary she writes, “I ask You to remind me when I crave a snack such as a ‘3 Musketeers’ to remember You on The Cross & how You had nothing to eat or drink.” She cooks frozen baked ziti for her family three times a week and hates her husband...

Author: By Lauren S. Packard, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Macabre, Mundane Merge | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...bonus scandal could make that repair job even harder than it already is. Growing doubts about the Administration's revitalization plan have now mushroomed into a full-blown credibility crisis. After all, how can Obama ask for upwards of another $750 billion for another bank bailout (as he has in his 2010 budget) and $100 billion to help the world economies, when it appears the Administration has had little control over how the banks have been spending the money thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The AIG Backlash: Has Congress Flipped Out? | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...large number of house shirts (Leverett, Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Cabot, if memory serves us correct) is not a good look.  Shouldn't you want to stand out in a crowd?  Cabot House, however, gets a few points for this reasonably clever shirt (FlyBy doesn't ask for much...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: The Housing Day Live Blog | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...experience that Americans of all ages and backgrounds have every day on battlefields and in classrooms, food pantries and even corporate boardrooms. Last year 62 million Americans gave 8 billion hours of service. Back in January, I joined with Colin Powell to ask Americans to give back on Martin Luther King Jr. Day; the result was the largest ever turnout for that day of service. (See 21 ways to serve America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Era of Service Across America | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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