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...experts. But we can no longer abdicate judgment to them or to the system they've cobbled together. This country, after all, was created by passionately engaged amateurs. The American spirit really is the amateur spirit. The great mass of European settlers were amateur explorers, and their grandchildren and great-grandchildren who created the U.S. were amateur politicians. "I see democracy," the late historian Daniel Boorstin wrote, as "government by amateurs, as a way of confessing the limits of our knowledge." In the early 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville approvingly noted the absence of "public careers" in America - that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Avenging Amateur | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...sitting around the family album sharing cherished memories. These e-mail services help fill in those gaps. Bellanca, for example, feeds her father's passion for photography by Sunnygramming him several pictures with notes each week. My husband's Gram, who has seven kids, 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, complains that she receives so many photos her Presto ink runs out too quickly. Which, we assume, is a problem most grandparents would be happy to have - no matter the delivery method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hi Gramps, Here's a Printout of My E-Mails | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

Like any doting nonagenarian, López sang the praises of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But she also recalled her opposition to Francisco Franco's authoritarian regime and grappled with contemporary political debates ranging from Basque separatism to Iran's nuclear ambitions. Her ingenuity and lively writing won her a sit-down in 2008 with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mariá Amelia López | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

...Lebanon, they cannot legally buy a house or apartment and remain barred from some 70 professions. Lebanon's fragile sectarian political system, balanced between Christians and Muslims, has been unable or unwilling to absorb so many Muslim refugees. So neither Sulhani, nor his children, nor his grandchildren, nor his great-grandchildren have Lebanese citizenship, despite the fact that all but the family patriarch were born on Lebanese soil. "My life in this country has been one heartbreak after another," says daughter Ahlam. "I have no good memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinians in Lebanon: A Forgotten People | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...statement released this afternoon by Obama and Soetoro-Ng said, "She was the cornerstone of our family and a woman of extraordinary accomplishment, strength and humility. She was the person who encouraged and allowed us to take chances. She was proud of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and left this world with the knowledge that her impact on all of us was meaningful and enduring. Our debt to her is beyond measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Inspiration, His Grandmother, Dies at 86 | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

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