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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hell will freeze over and the devil will be on ice skates before the South will ever support a mixed-race liberal Democrat for President. There are still a lot of people down here who believe that miscegenation (which, like abortion, used to be a crime) remains immoral and sinful. Add to that Obama's al-Qaeda-sounding name, and it's plain that he has no chance of being elected President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...your friends give you hell for being in a Paula Abdul video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 13, 2006 | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...desperation. It might just as well not have reflected her inner experience. How are we to know? For we are not talking "untrustworthy narrators" here; we are talking outright liars, people who couldn't figure out a compelling story from the materials at hand and just decided-what the hell!-to make something up as they went along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploiting Diane Arbus | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...very confusing, and I'm sure he was very confused. Look, his wife dies, his other three children die, the guy's been grieving and been through hell. He gives his last son to an orphanage at the age of two weeks... to a certain extent he was ready to move on with his life. Then suddenly I show up and someone from the village says 'Hey, this white woman'-he didn't know who I was-'wants to adopt your child!' And once the press got involved everyone said Oh God, now we better cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I don't want to take your son from you. I just want to save his life." | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...Hell, even Billy Joel got in on the act with his trumped-out prole anthems “Allentown” and “The Downeaster Alexa,” conjuring up infinitely absurd images of Joel working in a steel mill, or relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel’s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Land Ain’t Flowers’ Land | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

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