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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...anymore?") The government equivalent of this is called "drug education" and it's fine. But when you try to change certain things by force, things close to the core about what folks love and hate, about their personalities, you just run into trouble. It doesn't work. You might knock down but you will never build up. This is why the government is better off out of the marijuana business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Not Against, Like, Oh Wow Man, Pot | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...time portraying themselves as outsiders capable of bringing change to Washington. Neither Obama nor Clinton has declared they are running and if only one of them does, there's a lot of room for another major challenger to emerge. Aides to other Democratic candidates are already starting to quietly knock the big two, saying Hillary can't win the general election and Obama is too green to be elected president. Tom Vilsack won't come out and say anything that blunt, but he is likely to talk about his own history of success in a swing state. By next June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tom Vilsack Is Starting So Early | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...meetings Holland holds. But the Globe also described e-mails from two administrators of the business school at Brigham Young University, the Mormon school that is Romney's alma mater, who used office computers to solicit support for the campaign. The two were told by B.Y.U.'s counsel to knock it off, although Romney later said it made sense to raise money from people he knows, including alumni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mormon as President? | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...here's the dilemma: If Nissan doesn't knock out consumers with beautiful, sculpted steel or impress them with new technologies, how will it stand out? Some analysts think it won't. "Ghosn came in and turned a carmaker on the verge of bankruptcy into a company with operating margins around 8%," says Tatsuo Yoshida, an auto analyst with UBS in Tokyo. "He turned the company into a sustainable one. That is a huge improvement, but that is perhaps the limit of Nissan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger Caution Ahead | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...Bright Hockey Center against No. 10 Minnesota-Duluth to kickoff a set of five non-conference games. The Bulldogs, who are fresh off an upset over top-ranked Wisconsin, will provide a good test for the Crimson.HARVARD 5, PRINCETON 0Harvard received a bit of help in its effort to knock Princeton from the top when Ivy league rival Dartmouth spoiled the Tigers’ unbeaten campaign with a 6-3 win Friday night. The Crimson then took the ice Saturday to punish Princeton further in the 5-0 rout. Both Harvard and Dartmouth—who beat Quinnipiac...

Author: By Rebecca A. Compton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Jumps To Top Of ECAC | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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