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...free spirit grew into a divorced mom of two daughters. Stevens decided she should find a job with better hours and benefits. There was just one problem: no college degree. A friend told her about a job processing medical claims. Stevens talked her way into the interview and just kept talking as the boss looked at her quizzically. Suddenly something clicked in his head, and he said, "Aren't you that girl from the deli?" He had met her years earlier, maybe with a sandwich in her hands, and he hadn't forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House of Cards: The Faces Behind Foreclosures | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...some even looted from the national museum in Kabul, were spirited out of the country. But it was the fall of the Taliban in December 2001, and the subsequent power vacuum, that unleashed the most devastating rape of Afghanistan's heritage to date. "Ironically, poverty and war are what kept these sites safe," says Jolyon Leslie, head of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which promotes the rehabilitation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage. In times of conflict, civilians were afraid to leave home, he says, and the fear of land mines kept many from digging. Now that a nationwide campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: A Treasure Trove for Archaeologists | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

This is the first time I've been able to do it with a full orchestra. It kept coming up over the years, and at the time, I didn't have the resources to do the full thing live. It seems like the songs are fresh now because they weren't performed very much, whereas most of my other records were done live a lot. And I don't own the original record; that's one reason. There are many, many more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Van Morrison | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...faithful. Harvard, however, would not give up in the third set without a fight. Facing elimination, the Crimson began feeding the ball to Jones, who provided kill after kill to give Harvard an early 10-4 lead. Jones finished with 14 kills on the night.“We kept going to him,” Baise said. “He did a great job. It’s nice to see a freshman step up in a situation like that. He’s been working really hard and he came through tonight. Jones’s counterpart...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rivier Controls Tempo and Secures Win | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...fear that street protests could tip the country into deeper chaos, or even invite military intervention. Pakistan's armed forces have always been the country's ultimate power broker, if not its true center of power. Since the fall of Musharraf, the new army chief, General Ashfaq Kiyani, has kept a relatively low political profile. But few Pakistanis doubt the military's capacity to intervene if political chaos threatens the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ruling Throws Pakistan into New Political Turmoil | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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