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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Members of the foreign press twice applauded after Obama's press conferences, and the streets of Prague had been graffitied with a stenciled Obama portrait. The excitable French President Nicolas Sarkozy pronounced it "a hell of a good piece of news" that Obama understood that "the world does not boil down to simply American frontiers and borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Obama: At Home Abroad | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...London. At the end of Obama's Friday press conference, French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed the issue directly, speaking through an interpreter. "It feels really good to be able to work with a U.S. President who wants to change the world and who understands that the world does not boil down to simply American frontiers and borders," he said. "And that is a hell of a good piece of news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama's New World Order | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...affect the modern economy, just as there is no way to suss out what a 50% drop in housing prices from the 2006 peaks would do. Some economists believe that these problems will drive the nation into a decade of economic stagnation, while others would like to see the boil lanced no matter how painful it may be. The second group wants to see the unimaginable after effects of years of leverage taken as one mammoth typhoon, hoping that it will only last a few quarters, blow itself out, and allow the resulting low cost of labor and commodities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIG Reaction: Stupidity and the Alchemy of Chaos | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...seems, cannot truly be enjoyed. Awkward as it may be to watch any sex scene in a theatre, the most disturbing aspect of watching these relations stems from the look of unpleasant necessity, rather than pleasure, that occupy the participants’ faces. A nagging guilt, like the unpleasant boil on Cousin Alan’s ass, seems to haunt this most natural of drives for everyone.“I’m a certified nurse,” Nayda sighs as she looks out a window. “What the hell am I doing here...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Serbis | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...much intellect?” Darwin was also intensely interested in the consciousness of other humans, including children and indigenous people. Near the time Darwin wrote about the free will of oysters, he was intrigued by his indigenous companions who attributed free will to a pot that would not boil potatoes in high altitude. Beer connected Darwin’s imagination and science with fictional narratives, for which he had a “voracious appetite.” Her work has shown both the importance of narratives in Darwin’s scientific writing and the importance...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Soul Archeology' of Darwin | 2/24/2009 | See Source »

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