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What happened a year ago on Wall Street is exactly an example of what Smith was warning [about]. Society is not really made to be a purely competitive operation. And I think we have learned that lesson, but I don't know for how long. The whole argument that nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Humans Actually Selfish? | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

If you had asked me when I was little what my concept of vampires was, I would have said something combining Tom Cruise’s portrayal in “Interview with the Vampire” with the goth kids that hung out at the piano-store end of...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Hot Topic: Vamps Don’t Really Suck, Per Se | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Snowe's most provocative contribution to the health-care debate has been her proposal for a trigger that would activate a Medicare-like, government-run public option to provide affordable coverage if private insurance companies failed to. "It would be a safety net, a fallback mechanism," she says, arguing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seducing Olympia Snowe: The Key to Health Reform | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

Little surprise that Snowe may turn out to be at the bridge. "I understand about winning elections, because that's what we do," she says with a sigh. "But it should be a competition of good ideas, not erecting barriers to solving the problems of a great nation." Her biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seducing Olympia Snowe: The Key to Health Reform | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

But Young isn't the only politician to blame. In 1956, when I was 8 years old, my Congressman was John D. Dingell. There are people in southeastern Michigan who are still represented by Dingell, the longest-serving member in the history of the House of Representatives. "The working men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit: The Death — and Possible Life — of a Great City | 9/24/2009 | See Source »

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