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...government's predictions have trouble taking panic and turning it into a number or a digit, so its calculations will always be well off the mark. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Housing Takes Center Stage As Economy Looks for Signs | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...horses for the first two chukkers, or periods of play, and the other team plays those same six horses in the last two. Because of the idiosyncratic dynamics between horse and rider, the advantage is huge for the home team playing on its own string—the mark of the exceptional polo player is the ability to adapt to any horse...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grabbing the Reins | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...what can still be achieved: the principal goal now is to counter terrorism and bring a degree of stability to Afghanistan - not to turn a poor and fractious nation into a flourishing democratic state. When Obama laid out his new strategy last month, he made it clear that the mark of success would be the ability "to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to prevent their return to either country in the future." But accomplishing even that comparatively limited objective at this stage will require a massive and sustained U.S. Commitment - one that involves more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. in Afghanistan: The Longest War | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...makes money from Twitter now.' MARK CUBAN, Dallas Mavericks owner, in a Twitter message about being fined by the NBA for insulting referees on the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...those tempted to label Groves as the pawn of partisans in the White House or the Democratic Party, I have a warning: the notion of Bob Groves yielding to partisanship is laughable. As in rolling-on-the-floor, laughing-out-loud laughable." - Mark Blumenthal, publisher and editor, Pollster.com. (April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert M. Groves: Obama's Pick for Census Chief | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

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