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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decades, American conservatives have been warning of threats posed to the institution by a broad spectrum of foes. Henry Ford blamed Jews for the efforts to remove religious displays from public schools; in the McCarthy era, the John Birch Society saw the holiday as the target of a vast communist conspiracy. Since the 1990s, a right-wing website has held an annual competition for the most egregious example of secularization. (Villains include the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which christened its year-end party "A Celebration of Holiday Traditions.") But it was really during this decade that the Yule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History: The War on Christmas | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

Parts of the project have had bad luck. The Harmon boutique hotel, a victim of construction defects, won't be finished until the end of 2010. But the opening of Aria is a significant achievement, signifying the end of an era in Vegas. The days of visionary auteurs bringing extravagant casino dreams to eager banks are over. Land is too expensive if you don't already own it. Banks are reticent to lend to developers who lack land equity and plenty of cold hard cash. MGM Mirage owns a larger parcel than CityCenter a few miles north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Las Vegas' Opulent CityCenter Survived Dubai | 12/19/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard alumni in South Africa, participating in broad conversations about higher education and the changes that the nation has undergone in the past two decades. Education is viewed as crucial to the “transformation” of South Africa into a democratic state in a post-apartheid era, Faust says...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Around the World with Faust | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...Sexuality is such a central organizing logic of human subjectivity in the modern era, that you need to know about it to make sense of oneself,” Kaiser says. “There’s a lot of violence and injustice perpetuated in the US because of sexuality...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaiser’s Class All About Sex | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...While some competitors remain cautious, Microsoft has pledged its full cooperation. If so, it could mark a new era as the company redirects its business strategy away from maintaining its crushing market dominance and toward something it had fought against for 10 years - greater cohesion with its rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In E.U. Deal, Microsoft Allows Rival Browsers | 12/17/2009 | See Source »

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