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At the beginning of junior year, after a semester of more or less uneventful membership, I quit the Spee. Nothing scandalous happened that made me do it; there weren’t any secret rituals gone horribly wrong, and there wasn’t one shocking event that marked my...

Author: By Chris W. Black, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: I Joined, Then I Quit | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

All four of the initiatives were aimed at curbing the power of the Democratic Party machine and its organized labor backers in California. Schwarzenegger wanted to have teachers work for five years, not two, before getting tenure; to require unions to ask each individual member before using their dues for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arnold's Bad Day at the Polls | 11/9/2005 | See Source »

(2 of 2) Exactly. The whole exercise seems contrived, and Coetzee has set the story in Australia, where he now lives. Let's hope some Elizabeth Costello takes control of his life and returns him to South Africa to find his inspiration. But lalela - listen. The man has fought the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Enough Wrongs To Write | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

While Schwarzenegger may have frittered away much of his political capital, the four reform initiatives he has been pushing are far from frivolous. They propose that public-school teachers become eligible for tenure after five years, up from two; that public-service unions need to get permission from individual members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arnie's High-Risk Election | 10/31/2005 | See Source »

What follows, to give you an idea, is a typical direct quote without any words omitted--the ellipses just signifying a brief Kilmer breath: "I'm looking to do comedy ... I'm very lucky. I never had to pay dues. I went to Juilliard. I wrote about a West German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Angst Is So Yesterday | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

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