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...change things, too", wrote Fortune Nbumbo, 7. Tatiana Jones, 9, told Obama, "You open the door not just for me, but for everybody." For the students at FLI, the definition of leadership is clearer than it's ever been, and the playing field, even if it's a patch of turf between two brick walls, is slowly leveling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lacrosse 110th Street | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...were leaving in the morning. Barack had the flu. There was an elderly black gentleman who had been our elevator operator for three days. As we got to the ground floor, he said, "Senator Obama, I have something I want to give you," and he handed him his military patch. He said, "I've carried this military patch with me every day for 40 years, and I want you to carry it, and it will keep you safe in your journey." It was just such an unbelievable act of generosity. So later we asked Barack what he had done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Their Words | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...offending sound. As she approached, the sound grew louder. The pitiful whisper of soil as it flew, displaced, grated her soul. The hoarse pants of a laboring man pained Roxanna’s gentle nature. But onward she ran, as if with winged feet. There, crouched in the patch wherein her precious petunias and beloved rosebush grew, covered in soil that had become dirtied by his touch, was the new gardener who had just been clasping Frederick’s supine form so possessively moments before. He did not notice her presence at first, and she watched in horror...

Author: By Lesley R. Winters, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stable Boy: Chapter 11 | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...most of Japan’s produce is locally grown. Chestnuts, pumpkins, mushrooms and sweet potatoes, in-season treats, regularly adorned every dish. McCulla observed that the students’ meals were balanced and they never left waste on their trays. And call me a cynic, but the pumpkin patch visits that HUDS sponsors don’t make me feel any greater connection to the Harvard student body. Maybe Adams dining hall does makes me feel more connected to the house, but the monitors describing the “Putanesca” sauce don’t really make...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Japan's Metabo Mistake | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...CABBAGE PATCH candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

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