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...state constitution to allow residents to enact laws through referendums. He once urged people to inundate former governor James Thompson's office with 40,000 tea bags to beat back postelection pay hikes. These days, he draws attention to the cause of veterans by hosting a website called Operation Homefront. (Meanwhile, he slips into the funerals of soldiers almost unnoticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pat Quinn: The Man Who Would Replace Blagojevich | 12/16/2008 | See Source »

...himself as a civilian—the formlessness of that life, the endless petty choices to be made”—he begins to speculate about the value of family.Without even the slightest political or philosophical twang, Wolff evokes the question of what war means on the homefront today. A hundred and fifty years ago, it meant visible, physical sacrifice: bandages rolled in the home, wounded laid out on the front porch, scorched fields and ransacked homes. In the last century it has meant ration coupons, war bonds, and nationwide campus riots. In today’s world...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minutiae Make 'Story' | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...homefront remains on alert, but in a leisurely, one-eye-open kind of way. Police at the Pentagon scrape the air for signs of radiation or chemical attack, track the wind direction to guide escaping employees. But 9/11 Commission chairs Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton used the anniversary to remind people that security remains a shield with holes. Most air cargo is still not screened, the high-tech bomb detectors are indefinitely delayed, and Congress demands tighter standards for drivers' licenses but won't fund them. The broadcast industry has until 2009 to turn over the spectrum that rescuers need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Remember 9/11 | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

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Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Afoot in Iraq: Harvard Sets Sights on Stable Middle East | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UVa Strikes Back After Wave of Hate | 10/6/2005 | See Source »

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