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Look, there are a lot of hard-working people at VA hospitals, but we cannot turn our backs to the reality that the system is broken. It's totally ill prepared to accept the kind of volume that has come to them as a result of these occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Donahue | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...sales. That's why 42.9% of merchants have improved their search function, 42.6% have added or enhanced product videos and 32.7% have included customer reviews to help shoppers make buying decisions, according to Shop.org's 2008 eHoliday Study, conducted by Shopzilla. Further, 8 in 10 retailers are offering some kind of free shipping option this season, often with a stipulation like a minimum purchase amount. Consumers are increasingly savvy about playing these options for maximum value. "They will bundle their purchases so they can combine shipping costs or go to sites that only offer free shipping," says Jeffrey Grau, senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Online Sales Brighten a Bleak Holiday Season? | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...precedents and avoid chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their Presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh. As long as there have been Republican presidents, they’ve been kind of funny. Lincoln was a veritable wellspring of quips and anecdotes; Taft at least looked jolly; Reagan was a laugh-a-minute, from Star Wars missile defense systems to his side-splitting trickle-down economics. Democrats, by contrast, have been a soberer lot. Wilson? Roosevelt? Gore...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: No, We Can’t (Laugh)! | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...prestige of the concentration is going to go down,” O’Donnell said. “It was kind of nice being in an honors-only concentration, but I also like the fact that it is going to open up to a lot more people...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Evolution of History of Science | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...After the election, relations weren't much better. Truman wrote in his diary on Nov. 11, 1952, that Eisenhower was being coy about cooperating on the transition. "Ike and his advisers are afraid of some kind of trick. There are no tricks ... All I want is to make an orderly turnover. It has never been done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When New President Meets Old, It's Not Always Pretty | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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