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...Many people got fed up with Blocher's aggressive and combative manner," says Georg Lutz, a political scientist at Bern University. "When you are part of a coalition government you should try to find common ground with the others. But he just pursued his own agenda and polarized the whole country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blocher's Fall From Swiss Grace | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

...outside the country. The bill simply will not make our intelligence agencies get thousands of warrants for foreign terrorists. The restore Act's blend of Executive Branch flexibility, court approval and congressional oversight is calibrated to ensure that the fight against terrorism is conducted in an efficient and constitutional manner. We would hope that Klein, having studied the restore Act further, is no longer so confused as to continue to characterize our system of constitutional checks and balances as "well beyond stupid." John Conyers Jr. and Silvestre Reyes, Chairmen, House Committee on Judiciary and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama on the Offensive | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

...would never attempt to prescribe what another institution ought to do,” Stone wrote, “especially in the superior manner that the partial quotes in this article appear to suggest...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, Clifford M. Marks, and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Disputes Faust Quotations in BusinessWeek Article | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...Gingerbread House Contest RIGHT NOW!”The theme: architecture around the world. Our protagonists knew they had happened upon the solution to their twin problems. They would build a gingerbread house that would not only satisfy the common hunger, but would also lift the spirit in the manner of great constructions past. The mission was clear: to create a cathedral, but not just any cathedral: one where spice drops could refract light in such a way as to pierce the hearts of lowly, overworked gingerbread men with love for their candy gods. They would attempt nothing less than...

Author: By Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Our Ginger Notre Dame-inance | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

Biden clearly knows a lot, rattling off practical liberal-policy solutions for all manner of domestic and international challenges, but he's just all wrong for 2007. He refers to himself in the third person, calls the Russians "Soviets," leans patronizingly into people's faces and brags about passing legislation by saying "I did it with my own little paw, folks." When a young girl from the Scholastic journalism program asks him when he'll bring the troops home, he gives her a three-minute-long answer that's not really an answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Run of an Also Ran | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

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