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...Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Social Security privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost choked to death on a pretzel. (See the screwups of Campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama Elected President with Mandate for Change | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

...returned to her alma mater to instruct a workshop on creativity in dance expression for the budding CityStep teachers. Underneath her wavy mass of dark hair, Peck’s eyes light up behind her glasses as she describes her work, which ranges from teaching community-based performance at Duke and NYU to running a web strategy firm in New York. But Peck is most animated when she talks about her continued involvement with CityStep...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Step By Step | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Advocating a ConCon are the Republican Party of Hawaii, the police chiefs and prosecutors of every major Hawaiian island, the state Attorney General, the lieutenant governor and former Hawaii Congressman Ed Case, the cousin of AOL co-founder Steve Case. Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona, a Republican, set the ConCon process in motion last year when he directed election officials to put the question on next week's general election ballot. In calling for the latest ConCon, Aiona says, "It's long overdue." A ConCon could well allow Hawaii's Republican governor, Linda Lingle, to create local school districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Hawaii Rewrite Its Constitution — Again? | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...squads roll through the competition in its first rounds, making mincemeat of squads like Duke, and Maryland, and Stanford...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: Time to Unleash Crimson Dragon | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...arms because they don't want athletic tape ripping hair off their bodies, but experts say they should lose the razor. "No matter how careful the shaving is, you can have nicks and microscopic cuts in the skin," says Dr. Daniel Sexton, an infectious disease specialist at the Duke University Medical Center, who consults for an NFL team and several college programs. "Any time you break that barrier, it becomes a portal through which bacteria can gain access." Staph prevention is pretty low-tech. "You know, this is pretty simple," Sexton says. "Hand washing remains the primary defense against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slew of Staph Infections Tackles the NFL | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

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