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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reasons not to say whom you're voting for boil down mainly to the interests of journalists, not those of readers and viewers. It would be a pain in the neck. Campaign sources would mistrust you. Radio hosts and bloggers would have a field day. Readers would become suspicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Full Disclosure | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...getting his money’s worth from free-burrito day, too. He had come over on the bus from Berklee and, after getting one burrito, got back in line for a second. He planned to wait to eat the second one, and left satisfied. “The pain wouldn’t be worth the gain,” he said. “Boloco and Qdoba just don’t cut it.” Some came prepared to wait. Erin R. Gilmour brought a copy of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility with...

Author: By Gabriel J. Daly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Diners Wrap Around Block for Free Chipotle Burritos | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

...Edinburgh researchers, too, found that older study participants scored lower than younger ones on scales of neuroticism - worry and nervousness - and higher on scales of agreeableness.) Oswald chalks up the midlife dip in happiness shown in his study to people "letting go of impossible aspirations" - first, there's the pain of fading youth and the realization that we may never accomplish all that we had dreamed, then the contentment we gain later in life through acceptance and self-awareness. "When you're young you can't do that," Oswald says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Our Happiness Preordained? | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...with bells wrapped around their ankles while performing a classical dance. It was followed by one of three traditional poems, read in an Indian language and translated into English for the audience. The poem “This Monsoon Descends” investigated the co-existence of love and pain in the world. The pace soon picked up in an energetic Tamil dance in which dancers in bright orange dress with white washcloths reenacted a village scene about a shut-off water supply. The enthusiasm and energy of pieces like the Tamil dance characterized the show. This enthusiasm was most...

Author: By Sasha F. Klein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dance, Glitter Shine in 'Ghungroo' | 3/12/2008 | See Source »

...many Iranians, with double-digit inflation curbing their annual New Year's shopping spree that usually occurs around this time. That has prompted a number of candidates promoting themselves as dard-ashna, a new campaign catch-phrase whose translation vaguely echoes Bill Clinton's 1992 line, "I feel your pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Out the Vote in Iran | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

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