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...Lawrence H. Summers was announced. His was the shortest tenure in the presidential office since that of Cornelius Conway Felton, Class of 1827, who, in addition to being deaf as a post, died in office in 1862 after serving just two years. Summers remained in office, a conspicuously lame duck, until June 30 when he was succeeded by one of his predecessors, Derek C. Bok, who had served as president from...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes | Title: Don’t Rush, Get It Right | 2/2/2007 | See Source »

...limit some of the damage done by the misadventure in Iraq. "What [the Bush team] may be stumbling toward is grand strategy by accident, that includes diplomacy, economic muscle, military force and all of your capacity to lead other countries," says a former U.S. ambassador. But can an unpopular, lame-duck President, and a team with such a record of ineptitude, pull it off? "It is still going to be a very bumpy road," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rice's Toughest Mission | 2/1/2007 | See Source »

...known - made knee-jerk nationalist comments. In fact, the outlet, a tiny, hole-in-the-wall store with no sign outside, has been serving its signature overpriced, coffee-flavored milk to tourists for no less than six years. So why the sudden interest in the issue? Trotting out this lame duck (can ducks trot?) has certainly sparked a rush of internet traffic to Rui's blog, and gotten his post onto the front page of China's most popular blog aggregator, www.blog.sina.com.cn. Regardless of motives or the merits of the argument (as the outlet is so discreet, I'm pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuckolders and Latte Hawkers Beware! | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...Sp-studio.de: Make your own South Park avatar. Sounds kind of lame, but there are so many options that it will occupy you for hours...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 WEBSITES | 1/18/2007 | See Source »

...They're probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive--it goes for up to $600--and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it's hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you're in trouble when you get beat by something called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things That Went From Buzz to Bust | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

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