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There was a joke floating around Republican circles earlier this year that was decently funny, by Washington standards, and had the added virtue of being true: Barack Obama has more czars than the Romanovs ever did. The quip, tweeted by Senator John McCain, was a thinly veiled gripe about the President's appointment of a slew of policy coordinators tasked with everything from reforming health care to restoring the Great Lakes. The White House advisers drew wide attention earlier this month when green-jobs czar Van Jones was forced to resign after revelations of impolitic comments about Republicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Czars | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be WOWed By Montana World of Wearable Art | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...Walmart - which is buried in the back of a parking lot - while driving along a main thoroughfare. And of course, customers will always nitpick. One elderly shopper complained about a shortage of benches in the store (she needed a rest). Another had a more esoteric, yet legitimate, gripe. "Their meat is leaky," says Jeff Winter, 30, a West Deptford shopper. "And instead of giving you a wet wipe to clean it off, they give you a dry towel. How's that going to prevent E. coli or whatever?" (See which businesses are bucking the recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walmart's Latest Move to Crush the Competition | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Airlines' Customer-Complaint Lines: No Answer | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take a Break at Guatemala's Lake Atitlan | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

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