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For a short while on Inauguration Day, a poet, not a President, will hold the world's attention. Alexander, Barack Obama's choice to compose and read a poem on the occasion of his swearing in, spoke to TIME about writing for the moment.
“I’m just trying to stay very quiet and focused until we come to the day itself,” she said. “The occasion is literally unimaginable.”
What are called "bird and wildlife strikes" have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to U.S. civil and military aviation over the years, as well as loss of life. Says Todd Curtis, founder of Airsafe.com and an expert in aviation service: "The risk is real. Birds are a...
But Bush quickly moved on to things he wasn't sure he would count as mistakes; instead, he labeled them "disappointments." Among things Bush found disappointing: the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the failed response to Hurricane Katrina and the fact that there were no weapons of mass destruction...
As a country, we have seen how we can rise to the occasion in a crisis: we saw it seven years ago when our cities came under attack. We've felt it in wartime, in natural disasters. But the Great Recession is no short-term, onetime event, to which we...