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Michelle will neither relegate herself to a nonchalant homemaker nor presume to play the policymaker. Whatever balance she strikes between the two extremes, her lower-profile, more direct initiative is a welcome departure from the Armani-clad Harvard students who flock to the IOP’s liaison program, hoping...

Author: By Sean R. Ouellette | Title: Our Rock, but not Barack | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

Like many veterans of the Vietnam-era Army, he bridles at suggestions that the draftee force was riddled with misfits and druggies. "We didn't run off to Canada," he says, taking a swipe at those who avoided the draft by heading north. "While it makes great rhetoric to stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Last Draftee: "I'm a Relic" | 2/7/2009 | See Source »

In 1989, the circuit court in Escambia County, Fla., sentenced 13-year-old Joe Sullivan to a lifetime sentence for rape of a 72-year-old woman, with no possibility of parole. The grounds for Sullivan’s conviction were shaky. First, the trial only lasted one day. Second...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Crime and Too Much Punishment | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

That's one reason our critical infrastructure is in such critical condition. It's crazy to pretend that all airports are equally deserving of renovation funds when New York City and Chicago have the worst bottlenecks. We shouldn't even think about new bridges in rural Alaska or rural anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spend a Trillion Dollars | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

For ocean lovers, Bush's decision is a long overdue recognition that the seas are just as deserving of conservation as the land is. But while the U.S. has been establishing national parks for more than 130 years (beginning with Yellowstone National Park in 1872), we're only just now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Bush's Last Act of Greenness | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

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