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But how does a President even sign his name with so many pens? Does he print it? Does his signature come out looking disconnected and wobbly? What if he runs out of letters? "I've been practicing signing my name slowly," President Obama joked in January 2009 when he signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Did Obama Use So Many Pens to Sign the Health Care Bill? | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

Do you think it's a matter of people not knowing the true costs of a cheap meal or do they just not have many other choices because chips are cheaper than broccoli? I think it's a product of people not knowing. I don't think it's a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Week: Food Inc. Director Robert Kenner | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

At a school where we’re constantly divided between our study-mode selves and our rage-hard-on-a-Friday-night selves, we can come to a point where we look at certain aspects of our personalities or certain behaviors as somehow disconnected from who we are. We...

Author: By CATHERINE J. ZIELINSKI, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Getting Down and “Dirty” | 2/26/2010 | See Source »

While I suspect that the commercial success of McCarthy’s work may be due to the tropes of science fiction and action rather than its literary merits, that does not diminish the power of McCarthy’s intensely human portrait of a father and son. Where Roth...

Author: By Theodore J. Gioia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Studying 'American Pastoral' to Understand 'The Road' | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

So much of this country is disconnected and quite distant—geographically and culturally—from Washington and from the bastions of liberalism. And there the let-me-make-my-choices mentality is the rule, not the exception. It does not matter what the government is trying to...

Author: By Mark A. Isaacson | Title: My Country ’Tis of Tea | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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