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What's stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans. What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics - the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Text: Obama's "Announcement For President" | 2/10/2007 | See Source »

For the last six years we've been told that our mounting debts don't matter, we've been told that the anxiety Americans feel about rising health care costs and stagnant wages are an illusion, we've been told that climate change is a hoax, and that tough talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Text: Obama's "Announcement For President" | 2/10/2007 | See Source »

No. I just didn't want to get distracted. I wanted to make this personal. I wanted to feel like I was Ira Hayes, but I had my own interpretation of what that was.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Adam Beach | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

Now not only do we have to be aware of distracted drivers using cell phones and iPods, but in the not too distant future, they will be surfing the Net and watching reruns of I Love Lucy. Society needs to catch up to technology. Bob Scoza Long Valley, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

Now not only do we have to be aware of distracted drivers using cell phones and iPods, but, in the not too distant future, they will be surfing the Net and watching reruns of I Love Lucy. Society needs to catch up to technology. Bob Scoza Long Valley, New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rise of a New Superpower | 1/30/2007 | See Source »

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