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Lee directed me to one of the players he coaches, Coleman Collins, for the smart, tall guy's perspective. When I told him Lee questioned the findings, Collins, who is 6 ft. 9 in., wasn't surprised. "Short people are always ready to disagree," says Collins, who graduated from Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tall People Are Happier Than Short People | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

A sort of spin-off of the 2005 BBC political comedy series The Thick of It, the movie is directed by series creator Armando Iannucci and written by Thick veterans Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche and Ian Martin. Its central character is a Candidean foreign minister in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Loop: Stinging Strangelovean Satire | 7/26/2009 | See Source »

"President Obama said the actions of the CPD were stupid and linked the event to the history of racial profiling in America," said Sergeant Dennis O'Connor, president of the Cambridge Police Superior Officers Association. "The facts of this case suggested that the president used the right adjective but directed...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Obama Backs Off Gates Remarks After Police Ask for Apology | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

And there was a darker possibility. As a former Bush senior aide explains, "I'm sure the President and [chief of staff] Josh [Bolten] and Fred had a concern that somewhere, deep in there, there was a cover-up." It had been an article of faith among Cheney's critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

The Talabani-Barzani alliance has been accused of hoarding the money directed to Kurdistan from both outside investment and Baghdad; critics have also charged it with nepotism, alleging that key political and administrative positions have been handed over to kinfolk or party stalwarts; opponents also say that the budget process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Kurds: Time to Prove Their Democracy | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

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