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...environmental groups formed a human barrier to block access to a coal plant being built by Dominion in rural Wise County, Virginia. As acts of civil disobedience go, this wasn't exactly Bloody Sunday. The police took a hands-off approach and even offered to buy the protesters breakfast if they unchained themselves. (They declined.) But the consequences were far from trivial. The activists who had formed the barrier to the construction site were arrested and charged with trespassing, and they eventually paid $400 each in fines. That's nothing, of course, compared with the punishment the Dominion plant will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking On King Coal | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...have more student input and control. Their feedback will determine what the next steps are.11. FM: Dish: what’s some of the weirdest feedback you’ve gotten?TAM: (Laughs) Uh, hmm. Well, I remember getting a really, really great compliment about a breakfast, and the comment went on and on and on, as only, I think, an articulate student could do. And then they said something, “But then again it’s hard to bleep bleep screw up Captain Crunch.”12. FM: What’s your favorite part...

Author: By Stephanie M Bucklin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Ted A. Mayer | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...month where an Obama Administration might lean in the wars currently underway. Iraq in "now a political problem; security and the presence of military is important, but we need to get the Iraqis catalyzed to come to grips with handling front line combat issues themselves," said Danzig in a breakfast with reporters. While the Pentagon must begin "moving additional combat brigades to Afghanistan," Danzig stressed that "there are opportunities to use capabilities besides military power in Afghanistan that have been underdeveloped in Administration policy up until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easing In Obama as Commander in Chief | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...early 2007, John McCain sat down to breakfast at a back table in the Senate Dining Room with Ken Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last White House chief of staff and one of the few big-name Republicans to have supported McCain rather than George W. Bush in 2000. It stood to reason that the fabled Washington wise man would back McCain again. Instead, Duberstein said he was troubled by McCain's efforts to ingratiate himself with the conservative wing of their party. He cited a fence-mending commencement address McCain had given at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Past Defeat: How Can McCain Recover? | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...yesterday morning, about 50 College students joined former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers for a discussion of financial aid policies over a catered breakfast sponsored by the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Summers Touts College Aid Legacy | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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