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And yet it was by confronting so clearly all that frightens and threatens us that Obama could issue his challenge. "In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given," he said. "It must be earned." To do that, he said, America must dismiss the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Barack Obama's Inaugural Address: Humility, Gratitude, Sacrifice | 1/20/2009 | See Source »

Conservatives harrumph at all this adulation. Before declaring his greatness, we insist that we should wait for him to accomplish something for the country. (Spike Lee didn't even wait for the election. Last summer he said we were soon going to measure time by "BB, before Barack, and AB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Town Overboard: A Conservative Gripe About Obamamania | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

“Others, however, strongly support Hume’s greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely a problem of which came first...

Author: By Donald Carswell | Title: Beating the System | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

But perhaps the most remarkable thing about The Class is its conclusion. After all the edgy incidents it offers, when we come to the last day of school, the students are hard-pressed to recall anything useful or even memorable that they learned. They have, in effect, been babysat, kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class: A Year in the Blackboard Jungle | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

If you do, then it's obvious what comes next - words of greatness, or at least a flood of generic colloquy delivered while a background orchestra slowly builds to a crescendo. The obligatory inspirational movie speech is a tool used so often that characters, plots, settings and even centuries are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forty Inspirational Speeches in Two Minutes | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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