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...same realization will have to come to governments across the developed world. But S&P's Beers warns that process has only just begun. "There is hope that somehow the square can be circled," he says. But "it is going to be increasingly hard to say there aren't difficult choices to be made." Hopefully our political leaders won't just skip town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weighed Down | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...certain amount of trust in government is necessary to try to solve difficult problems--and difficult problems are pretty much what we'll be looking at for the foreseeable future: the national debt; the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ability to solve these problems means asking people to make a sacrifice, which requires a spirit of compromise and bipartisanship. Only then will trust in government begin to rise, and only then will voters begin to respond. What I can't agree with is the notion, expressed by the Tea Partyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Broken Government | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...signature snafu may be this: the Canadians couldn't make ice. A men's speed-skating final had to be halted for more than an hour because two ice-resurfacing machines were in various degrees of breakdown--sort of like the Games themselves. Still, you'd have a difficult time convincing most Canadians that their Olympics aren't measuring up. Snafus notwithstanding, Vancouver has been a determinedly cheerful host city and Whistler an advertisement for the staggering beauty of British Columbia. Besides, there's still time to pull it out. What matters most to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 3/1/2010 | See Source »

...tame it. Situated along the ring of fire, a hotbed of seismic activity that encircles the Pacific, the plates Chile sits on top of regularly unleash earthquakes of extremely high magnitude - more than a dozen major earthquakes since 1973. Richter can assign them a number, but it is difficult to describe how feverish and angry the earth feels here. The aftershocks this weekend have come fast and hard. Periodically, the ground shrugs and heaves like the back of some restless beast, sending pedestrians suddenly staggering around like drunks or rabid dogs. Thin skyscrapers sway like metronomes. Scientists reported more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postquake: Unease, and Wedding Bells, In Chile | 2/28/2010 | See Source »

...weren’t hard enough to focus during Math 1b already, those ladies lucky(?) enough to see a side of Vitti not usually aired in the classroom now have something else to distract them. Concentration during office hours with this TF will probably be even more difficult for any girl who has seen his well-defined function...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hasty Pudding Reveals All | 2/27/2010 | See Source »

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