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Michael Jackson kept his most stunning performance for the very end. Always able to command an audience, he knew how to bring whole arenas to fits of exultation with his moves and then silence them to the point of tears with his poetry. He was brilliant, excessive, maudlin, tacky and possibly criminal, but you could never ignore him. So it was fitting that in death, he momentarily silenced the largest arena humanity has ever known, the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fond Farewells: Paying Tribute to Notable People Who Died in 2009 | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

...child five years ago, died last year. It sounds a lot like the case of Elián González, the six-year-old Cuban boy who, after washing up in Florida in 1999 after a boat disaster his mother did not survive, was for seven months kept from his father in Cuba by a string of outrageous and politically motivated U.S. court rulings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goldman Controversy: Memories of Elián González | 12/19/2009 | See Source »

...limb, and they were met with critical acclaim. Almost immediately, Second City set a standard for smart social and political satire. In March 1960, TIME wrote, "The audiences keep coming back to the Second City, on Chicago's North Wells St., where the declining skill of satire is kept alive with brilliance and flourish." (See 10 things to do in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second City | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...steward of the nation's monetary policy, Bernanke—who went on to earn his doctorate from MIT and teach at Stanford and Princeton—kept interest rates aggressively low in order to stimulate borrowing and lending and expanded the role...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Congrats, Bernanke | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

...area’s history as a spot for those off the beaten path has kept it a destination for youth and homeless people...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eccentric People Create Eclectic Pit | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

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