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...home who are simply trying to get through the day with some semblance of normality. There will be blood, but there will also be mealtimes, horseplay and video games. Recall the old dictum by the great photojournalist Robert Capa: "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." What our photographer has attempted here is to get close enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Window On the War in Afghanistan | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...PFEIFFER, White House deputy communications director, acknowledging that the Obama Administration may not be able to fulfill its promise to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...charter schools, and taking control away from pastors and putting it in the hands of lay experts - these are just some of the ways dioceses (essentially a church district) are hoping to stem the school-closure tide, which has reached worrisome proportions in America's urban areas, where close to half of all parochial schools are located...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Solutions to the Catholic-School Crisis | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Cristo Rey is an island of success in the Catholic ocean. But as in the charter-school community, there is an awareness that there needs to be a system-wide overhaul, lest another thousand-plus schools close over the next decade. "Just because you're devoted to serving others isn't a reason why you can't be operationally excellent," says Eriksen. "That's not really a culture that has permeated the Catholic Church for the last few decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Solutions to the Catholic-School Crisis | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...community full of like-minded people tends to enforce their own view of the world and close off opposing viewpoints. You can go to parties in New York City where the liberal smugness is intolerable because they're only hearing liberal viewpoints. On the Whitopian conservative side, it's spinning out of control. Look at the tea-bagger movement, where people are concerned their taxes are going to be wasted on minorities and illegal immigrants. Same with the movement that says [President] Obama is not a citizen. (See pictures of the tea-party protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Booming White Enclaves | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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