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...think hockey is in my blood,” he says. “I just love being around the game, love being around the rink. After my career is over I hope I’ll be able to step into some sort of management job, maybe in the NHL or in Europe somewhere, but I’d definitely like to stay with the game...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frosh Follows Family Trade | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Still, politicians should take the calls for term limits as a barometer of how unhappy the public is with the job they're doing. Once more, term limits has become a rallying cry from the Tea Party movement to dozens of state initiatives that will be on the ballot come November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Term Limits: No Magic Pill for Washington's Woes | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...brink of a regional war that could be sparked by any number of incidents. From its air raid on a suspected nuclear facility in Syria in 2007 and the assassination of Hizballah operations chief Imad Mughniyah (which was also attributed to Mossad) in 2008 to the Dubai job, Israel - by action or by reputation - is notching up a series of scores that its Arab enemies are promising to settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Faces Growing Fallout Over a Hamas Hit | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...curling skip Andy Kapp yells at his teammates, imploring them to sweep their brooms faster, he sounds as if someone has poured scorching-hot water on his head. "Arrrgh!" his grunts echo throughout the Vancouver curling venue. "Push," he yells in German. "Hard! Fast!" In curling, the skip's job is to tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that's a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Curling: Vancouver's Oddest Obsession | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...carries on and you get a new and fixed public sense of Brown, that he's a bully and he's emotionally out of control, that could be immensely damaging," says Peter Kellner, the president of the polling organization YouGov. The Prime Minister's best hope of retaining his job, adds Kellner, is that voters see Brown "as passionate - and better that than somebody who's bland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a Bully? | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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