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...party era seems like a more propitious moment for media stars as politicians precisely because they are outside government. We live in an era when--after the best and brightest got the housing bubble, the banking crisis and Saddam's WMD capability wrong--official, expert authority has been discredited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2010 and On: Pundits Get Ready for Their Close-Up | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...effort, but I did it. The creature wanted to touch the milk, but if I tried, I could stop it. When I did, the fear went away. I practiced that - letting the creature reach for something, making it stop, making it back away. The better I got at controlling the creature, the easier my phobia was to control. I even talked to it. I asked it what it wanted and why it wouldn't leave me alone. It wasn't CBT, but it was working. (See TIME's Wellness blog: "The Psychology of Facebook Profiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Overcoming Phobias Can Be So Daunting | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...Willow Got ReligionLarry Butler first visited Willow Creek in the 1970s and left fast. "I liked the teaching, but I didn't see anybody like me," says Butler, 57, a solidly built, hazel-eyed African-American pharmacist from Oklahoma. "I didn't have any problem with the people, but I didn't know if they had a problem with me. So I thought, 'I'll go elsewhere.' " Other minorities who sampled the church felt similarly uncomfortable. Yet Butler returned to Willow in the early '80s, later inviting his wife Renetta and, as he says, "hoping things would change." (Read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Megachurches Bridge the Racial Divide? | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...negate virtually all of his Scene 1 pontificating) by passionately arguing for the man's innocence on the basis of one piece of evidence: the victim claimed that the accused man tore off her sequined dress, yet no sequins were found at the crime scene. (Perry Mason, you've got nothing to worry about.) The racial politics grow a little more complicated as the focus shifts in the last scene to the play's fourth character, a black legal aide (Kerry Washington) who, in the manner of most females in Mamet's male-dominated universe, turns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downward Spiral of David Mamet | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

...first race really motivates everyone for the meet,” Morawski said. “It got us off on the right foot. Both [Harvard relay] teams were very good...

Author: By Eric L. Michel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Swimming Dominates Penn in Return to Action | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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