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...this happen? After McHugh - a moderate, environmentally friendly Republican who was re-elected to the seat eight times - accepted Obama's nomination, local Democratic and Republican leaders chose their respective candidates. Bill Owens, an attorney with left-of-center views, was the choice of the Democrats, while Dierdre (Dede) Scozzafava, a moderate state assemblywoman from the district, was the pick of the local GOP. Doug Hoffman, an accountant living over the district line in Lake Placid, then declared his own candidacy with the backing of the state's Conservative Party leaders, who had opted not to endorse Scozzafava. Now Scozzafava...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GOP Civil War in Upstate New York | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...pour scarce dollars into interactive technologies for the classroom. Online institutions like the University of Pheonix, Devry, and even Harvard’s own Extension School offer convenient and relatively inexpensive online courses, to busy mid-career students looking to beef up their resumes. Professor of Education Christopher J. Dede told the NY Times that technology could never match the “home runs” that human tutors can deliver. “With technology,” he told the paper, “we don’t aspire to home runs, but good solid angles...

Author: By Diana Z. Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Technology Finds Its Place in Classes | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...Many welcomed the adult attention and said they were less homesick than their friends at other schools. A few were grateful to be able to take baby steps into college. "We're all here in one place so we can be cheesy and lame together," says first-year Meryem Dede. Some freshmen, though, complain they're being deprived of role models closer to their age. "I feel disconnected from upperclassmen," says Cole Garrett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Frosh New Start | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

...unfashionable aspects of the genre that attract directors to it. "There's something wonderfully analog about the western," says Mangold. "What's happening onscreen is happening. It's not a guy hanging in front of a green screen." Dede Gardner, who produced Jesse James through Pitt's company, Plan B, sees the western as therapeutically anachronistic and human-friendly: "We're besieged by technology, iPhone this and robot that. We're figuring out how to exist without even talking to one another. Well, you can't do that in [westerns]. It's all about person-to-person confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Tough to Die | 9/20/2007 | See Source »

...managed to resurrect a failing freshwater supply and clear the trash from the city's cobblestone streets. Rusen Cakir, Erdogan's biographer, stresses the politician's provincial upbringing and working-class values. "Unlike Erbakan, who was a spiritual father," he says, "Erdogan is more familiar, like a brother." Aslihan Dede, 21, a student journalist wearing a Muslim head scarf in Istanbul said last week, "He is one of us." He is also, says Cakir, a pragmatist: "He is Muslim, but he is looking for a new deal." Erdogan sent two daughters to Indiana University in part to evade Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey's Mystery Man | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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