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In "What If He Loses?" Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on the "loud sucking of the teeth" and "resignation" with which Barack Obama's defeat would be met by the black community [Oct. 20]. If Obama loses the election, the disappointment will be widespread and multiracial because voters will have chosen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

The Black Watch soldiers don't hate war; they hate the war they've been thrust into, in which their traditions mean nothing, the enemy can't be understood, and--the final insult and the cause of much controversy in Scotland--their unit is broken up. "It takes 300 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stage Fight | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

Danish urban planner Bent Flyvbjerg has a love-hate relationship with the Sydney Opera House. “It’s my favorite building,” he said. “But at the same time, I hate the project. The Sydney Opera House is a megaproject disaster...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Danish Prof Talks at GSD | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

In light of the “disaster of K-12 education,” O’Connor said, she hoped that policy-makers would pay more attention to early education, even though promoting racial diversity in higher education was a laudable goal.

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: O’Connor and Tutu Discuss Race at HLS | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

Crist's bipartisan agenda was an antidote for a state exhausted by partisan ugliness like the 2000 recount and the Terri Schiavo spectacle of 2005, and it's why half or more of Floridians still give him a thumbs-up in polls this year despite the economic disaster and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Got McCain Down in Florida | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

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