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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Media bias poses only one serious danger to McCain. One of Obama's standard tactics has been to predict that McCain would "play on our fears," "exploit our differences" and stir up "fake controversy" to win this fall. It's a clever move; it simultaneously paints McCain as a brute while making him think twice about hitting back--the harder McCain hits, after all, the more it will look as though he is stirring up fake controversy. Too many reporters have bought that spin, and that's a problem. McCain doesn't need reporters to fall out of love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crushing on Obama | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...Craig said that while the chip technology would make it difficult to travel into the U.K. on a fake passport, people use passports for a variety of reasons. "People will open up bank accounts, get work and pose as British citizens in outside countries," said Craig. "This is a serious, critical situation." He says the stolen passports are worth about $3,400 each on the black market, and will appeal to "desperate people all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thousands of UK Passports Stolen | 7/29/2008 | See Source »

...Stolen passports can have immense consequences. In 2001, two days before 9/11, Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood was killed by two suicide bombers - linked to Osama bin Laden - posing as journalists. Fake Belgian passports, part of consignments stolen from Belgium's embassy in the Hague or its consulate in Strasbourg, were found on the bodies of Masood's killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thousands of UK Passports Stolen | 7/29/2008 | See Source »

...figure out the head fake? It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way ... the dreams will come to you. Did you figure out the second head fake? The talk's not for you. It's for my kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Randy Pausch — Life Teacher | 7/25/2008 | See Source »

...month she invites people who run liberal organizations to speak in front of people who like to give money to people who run liberal organizations. I like to think that somewhere just down the street, Bo Derek is doing the same thing for Republicans, only with dolls and fake money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Activism, Hollywood-Style | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

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