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...first he has to win back some of the smaller tent, where he's been losing a number of local straw polls of Florida's conservative GOP base. Crist has let Republican fundamentalists hammer him on the stimulus - and the now famous picture of him and Obama sharing an onstage hug - but his campaign is poised now to hammer back with reminders that as Governor he led a crusade to tamp down Florida's runaway property taxes and insurance premiums. Conservatives are still apoplectic about his appointment of an African-American Democrat to the Florida Supreme Court this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Crist Survive a Right-Wing Uprising in Florida? | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

...anti-Shi'ite bloodshed has drained ordinary people's faith in the government. In its place, there is now raw anger. After ambulances rushed the dead and wounded to hospitals, some of the marchers defiantly continued. Less patient ones lashed out at government officials and journalists in the area, local media reported. Across Karachi, large buildings and more than 15 cars were torched. The fear is now that the city may see more such attacks and tit-for-tat reprisals. "I want to appeal to the people, to my brothers, my elders, to stay calm," said Mustafa Kamal, the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pakistani Taliban Targets the Shi'ites | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

...wiggles and writhes across the stage in black stockings and pink platform shoes, "singing" Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle." In an early scene, Widow Twankey, Aladdin's transvestite mother whose outlandish outfits rival those of Lady Gaga, recounts why she had to return her antiperspirant to the local pharmacy: "The instructions said, 'Take off top and push up bottom.' I can't be doing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Panto Season in Britain, Baywatch-Style | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

USAGE: "Because sexting cases are so new, local communities across the country vary greatly in their handling, from filing child pornography charges against the teenagers involved to alerting parents and letting them deal with it." --New York Times, MARCH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/28/2009 | See Source »

...foreign embassies to the Holy See. For weekly general audiences, which are held during the winter months inside the Paul VI auditorium, you simply need to show up early and ask Swiss guards at the famous Bronze Door for tickets. The occasional visits that the Pope makes to local dioceses in Rome (where he also serves as the city's bishop) afford an even closer look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Protecting the Pope: Keeping Him Safe But Open | 12/26/2009 | See Source »

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