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...This is something to keep in mind now that the Thomas Friedmans and Arianna Huffingtons of the world are imploring Obama to get angry, to shed his above-the-fray cool and fight back against the McCain campaign's silly-season accusations that he's a charismatic chauvinist who wants to teach kindergartners how to have sex. Over the past 18 months, Obama has been attacked as a naive novice, an empty suit, a tax-and-spend liberal, an arugula-grazing élitist and a corrupt ward heeler, but the only attacks that clearly stung him involved the Rev. Jeremiah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Obama, Race Remains Elephant in the Room | 9/15/2008 | See Source »

...while. She was a pinch-hitter [Wednesday].” After witnessing the transition of a very large freshman class last year—and negotiating his own transition from Arizona State to a new program at Harvard—Leone now throws another group of rookies into the fray. Four freshmen started Wednesday night’s contest, with Melanie Baskind putting seven shots on goal and Patricia Yau one. “We’re just trying to get them as much experience as possible,” Leone said. “It?...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Downs UNH for First Win of Season | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...Anchorage's NBC affiliate. Between 2004 and 2007, after getting into government, she wrote a series of op-eds for the Anchorage Daily News that offer clues about why Sen. McCain picked her in the first place - and what to expect now that she's entered the national election fray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reading Sarah Palin | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

...militia leader Muqtada al-Sadr stepped back into Iraq's political fray Friday with an offer that (if genuine) Washington would be hard-pressed to refuse: Set a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, and the Mahdi Army will begin to disband. "The main reason for the armed resistance is the American military presence," said Sadr emissary Salah al-Ubaidi, who spoke to reporters in Najaf Friday. "If the American military begins to withdrawal, there will be no need for these armed groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A US Withdrawal Deal with Sadr? | 8/8/2008 | See Source »

...says Smith. His ''platform'' is basically the highway itself, which will generate revenues for Bell Atlantic in the form of subscriber fees. Thus Paramount, a classic provider of such programming, is really not critical to this new venture, and Smith says Bell Atlantic has no intention of entering the fray. For their part, Barry Diller's allies contend that they don't need the backing of Bell Atlantic to prevail in the Paramount battle. Diller is about to add an additional $500 million or more to his war chest from Cox Enterprises; he already has $2 billion of bank financing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WIRED! | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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