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Remember this day. We now get to imagine, at least for a while, that the election of Obama has not just turned a page in our politics but also tossed out the whole book so we can start over. Whether by design or by default, the past now loses power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Obama Rewrote the Book | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

In 1933, Klee was forced to emigrate from Germany to Switzerland, the country of his birth, because the Nazis considered his art "degenerate" and there were rumors that he was Jewish. Klee's visualization of the inhumanity of Nazi rule shows that, in contrast to common misconceptions, not everything he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Klee's Universe Comes to Berlin | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Obama is a fantastic orator, a man who inspired a people disillusioned with the current administration. Yet, a vote for McCain is not a vote for Bush, and McCain called Obama out on this false accusation, announcing, “If you wanted to run against George Bush, you should...

Author: By Andrew J. Crutchfield, Peyton R. Miller, and Rachel L. Wagley | Title: Underdog to the Rescue | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

But how do you get beyond that besides widening your margins of risk?Eliminating leverage. If you don't have leverage, you don't have that problem. We have a faulty risk management system that underestimated probabilities while giving people the illusion of understanding them. It gave people the illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nassim Nicholas Taleb | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

It was in Sarobi that insurgents had killed 10 French troops in August, but after a few phone calls, Ali decided that Sarobi was probably the safest district we could visit to report on the security situation beyond the capital. Once we reached Sarobi, however, we realized that even Kabul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Afghanistan, the Dangers of an Ordinary Day | 10/20/2008 | See Source »

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