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...keep track of how the candidates are doing, TIME has created the monthly Election Index, which plots the amount of support each contender enjoys against how much voters know about that person. In this second edition, the candidates are becoming better known but not always better liked...
...visiting scholar at Harvard Law School’s European Law Research Center, according to spokesman Michael A. Armini, who added that Sathirathai will not have a teaching appointment. Sathirathai received a master’s degree from the Law School in 1982 and became the first Thai person to earn a doctorate in law from Harvard in 1985. As deputy prime minister, he oversaw foreign affairs, education, and culture in Thailand. He held the position for only one year before the government was overthrown by a coup d’état last fall. Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, a member...
...Networked World program, which administered the award. Mechling said he found Bloomberg’s speech very genuine, but added that Bloomberg could have addressed issues relating to leadership in a technological world more thoroughly. “I think the speech was an important speech by a person who was willing to say what he thinks and not give a canned speech his office had prepared for him,” Mechling said. But “if I were to have 10 more speeches, I would encourage [Bloomberg] to address those issues a bit more directly...
...know which came first, and we also know which will have a lasting impact. Duke’s lacrosse program—the team, the games, and the sport itself—will still be around long after Mike Krzyzewski retains his rightful place as the most important person in Duke athletics. This case, I’m happy to say, will...
...common retort to my nigger-boosting is that I would be ready to fight if a white person called me a nigger. This is true, but more because I'd be expected to be offended than for any real hurt feelings. Sure, I would not take kindly to whites calling me "nigger" - just as black audience members didn't take kindly to Michael Richards' recent racist rant - but I also wouldn't assume that I'd be able to walk into a honky-tonk bar and address the patrons as white trash. Words are contextual. A man on the street...