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...answer: a Mormon from Arizona, author of the “Twilight” series, Stephanie Meyer. While we were all fidgeting over the release of the next “Harry Potter” book in the first half of this decade, Meyer was working away on an idea that would make Potter look disturbingly mainstream-pagan. Before I go any further, here’s a refresher on the “Twilight” series: it’s an allegory for waiting to have sex until after marriage. Charming. Mormonly charming. If you?...
Egypt • slaughter of all the pigs in turns out to have been not such a brilliant idea...
...Irvine Humanities Lecturer Keith Danner gave an idea of the cuts in his division alone. "On July 1, 2008 we had 80 full time support staff. On July 1, 2009, we had 67 full time staff and with another 26 layoffs coming we will have 41 staff or a 50% cut. These are the people that make departments run." There are rumblings among faculty and staff that the university is top heavy with administrators often paid more than $100,000. Yet while critical of the U.C. administration for not being more transparent in its approach to budgeting and for paying...
...director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community at the University of Kentucky, Cross told TIME that "the idea that hatred for Barack Obama played any role in this is rank speculation and completely unwarranted at this juncture." Explains Cross: "Resistance to federal authority in the area dates back more than a century, to the era of major moonshine stills." And for nearly the past three decades, he says, "federal and state authorities have targeted pot growers in Clay and adjoining counties." It is currently marijuana-harvesting season, probably a particularly bad time to randomly knock on doors...
...provocative contribution to the health-care debate has been her proposal for a trigger that would activate a Medicare-like, government-run public option to provide affordable coverage if private insurance companies failed to. "It would be a safety net, a fallback mechanism," she says, arguing that a similar idea worked well to stimulate competition in the Medicare prescription-drug program. The idea has found a receptive ear at the Obama White House, where officials believe it could be a way to bridge the ideological divide that has made the public option for the least insured a flash point...