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...waste anyone's time or money. You won't find that phrase emblazoned on a T shirt, but it's essentially the motto of Western Governors University (WGU), a private online school that has worked hard to prove it is anything but a diploma mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Western, Young Man | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

Hard-core activists like Morgan have already heeded Gore's call. Many work in groups like the Rainforest Action Network (motto: "Environmentalism with teeth") and Rising Tide. But this isn't just the work of coastal élites; on Oct. 26, dozens of locals in Kansas picketed the massive Lawrence Energy Center, the 12th most polluting coal plant in the U.S. Similar protests pop up anywhere a new plant is being built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking On King Coal | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...year. New team. That’s the motto for Harvard women’s hockey. After suffering a heartbreaking end to last year’s near-perfect season, the team’s 21 returning players and three freshmen are leaving the past behind them and looking for a fresh start...

Author: By Melissa Schellberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finishing What They Started | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...that makes Al Capone's Chicago a shining city on a hill by comparison. Eastwood is after just the facts, ma'am. Weaving all the true-crime elements into a film of multilayered, Chinatown density either doesn't interest Eastwood and Straczynski or is beyond their skill set. The motto seems to be: lay it out; get it done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changeling: True Crime from Clint and Angelina | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

...your first book. Can you please explain the mole-men? I have so many questions about them. Many people do, and many of them will go unanswered. Mole-men became an obsession of mine as I was writing the first book. I wrote some interesting facts and a motto for all 51 states. For Virginia, I said the motto was "The Old Dominion," which was very arrogant of Virginians, as the true Old Dominion was an empire of mole-men who lived underground. The mole-men built Monticello, of course. Virginian gentlemen still retain some of the old fashioned Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hodgman | 10/21/2008 | See Source »

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