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...Nero, fiddling with the issues of same-sex marriage, abortion and flag burning while the Middle East is a conflagration, the global climate overheats and our health-care system crashes and burns. The slim majority that the Democrats have in both houses of Congress as a result of the midterm elections is not a mandate but a challenge to both major parties to work cooperatively to solve the nation's foreign and domestic problems. Kirk D. Gulden Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S. I believe the midterm elections may finally swing the pendulum back from President Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ascendancy of the Centrists? | 12/5/2006 | See Source »

...getting help with biology for my midterm,” Wimberley writes in an e-mail, “I ‘got permission’ from my superior running mate to go. Alas. Genes. They confuse...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss and Alexa D West, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Gillis Proposes Overhaul of Council Structure to Improve Efficiency | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...girl explains that she has a Social Analysis 10, “Introduction to Economics,” midterm the next day, and he offers her a one-minute version of his much-practiced talk. As he speaks, Petersen leans against the door frame, one leg crossed over the other, casual, confident, yet unimposing...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas and Van Le, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Petersen Pushes for Student Advocacy | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...bemused by Michael Kinsley's wish foran apology from Washington's neocons. I feel it's enough that the country has spoken in the midterm elections and demanded a change in dialogue and, I hope, direction from our political lite in Washington. To expect the neocons to grovel is a bit much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 11, 2006 | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...course, all this proves is that me-too-ism knows no party. NBC took its public step only after Bush's midterm thumpin'. Middle America may have been led by Cronkite, but now the reins are firmly in the other hand. In a perfect world, the media would be led by the facts, and the audience by its own mind. But if the public is giving the news permission to be more, well, reality-based, then lead on, folks, lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Culture Complex: The Civil War Behind Civil War | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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