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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...let them read the whole book with the bad words included? Well, since they said the bad words, it seemed pointless to not let them read them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Lewis on Father's Day | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...description isn't wrong. The Obama plans would, if enacted, amount to the biggest changes in financial regulation since the 1930s. But don't let this make you think the Obama reforms even approach in significance and forcefulness the changes made back then. In the early days of the Roosevelt Administration, Congress set up the Securities and Exchange Commission and charged it with strictly regulating markets, split banks from investment banks with the Glass-Steagall Act, created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., and enacted all manner of other game-changing financial reforms. It's not just that the Obama reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Obama's Financial-Reform Plan Bold Enough? | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...another legal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act - this one filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders - and several legal groups will be watching to see if Justice rehashes the offensive arguments in its previous brief. Whatever happens, the gay and lesbian community has no intent to let off the pressure on Obama. "It's like any other intimate relationship," says Rabin, the lobbyist who works with Human Rights Campaign and other gay-rights groups. "It's close and warm and complicated, and you have really good days and really bad days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Agenda, Gays Ask, but Obama's Not Telling | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

Before we go too far down the road cheering the forces of Iranian democracy, let's not forget that its public face, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, has American blood on his hands. He was Iran's Prime Minister during most of the 1980s, a time when the country was waging a terrorist campaign against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Baer: Don't Forget Mousavi's Bloody Past | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...prefer to forget. But at the very least, it should be a reminder that, when it comes to political leaders, there are no good choices in Iran. It is a promising sign that Mousavi has put his violent past behind him, as has Iran for the most part, but let's not completely forget his far-from-democratic roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Baer: Don't Forget Mousavi's Bloody Past | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

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