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At a time when Senate Democrats should be celebrating President-elect Obama's impending Inauguration and their biggest Senate majority in three decades, the scene had the makings of a public relations disaster. African-American political leaders are already incensed over the rejection of Burris, the first African-American to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burris Denied His Seat as the Senate Drama Continues | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

The Harvard women’s basketball team ended the Women of Troy Basketball Classic in Los Angeles with two losses. The two losses, though, could not have been more different. On Dec. 19, the Crimson (7-6) went down 54-49 to a Siena team that it had beaten...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Tale of Two Losses for Harvard in West Coast Tourney | 1/4/2009 | See Source »

Burg: I, like many others, believe that a day will come very soon when we will live in peace with our neighbors, and then, for the first time in our history, the vast majority of the Jewish people will be living without an immediate threat to their lives. Peaceful Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can the Jewish People Survive Without an Enemy? | 1/1/2009 | See Source »

Historically, Presidents have suspended the Posse Comitatus Act by invoking the Insurrection Act. President Dwight D. Eisenhower did just that in 1957 when segregationists tried to prevent black students from enrolling and attending public school in Little Rock, Ark. John F. Kennedy also used the act in 1962 and 1963...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Military Be Called in for Natural Disasters? | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

One emergency manager, who asked not to be named, says people on the civilian side worry about how to separate FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security, how to keep it professional and not "a weak sister of the military." At the same time, most civilian emergency managers recognize the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Military Be Called in for Natural Disasters? | 12/31/2008 | See Source »

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