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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...really don't know. But I can tell you I will have had a lot of experience in leading during a time of sustained crisis. The biggest lesson is that you have to play offense. You can't just hunker down. You have to continue to lead and push forward despite all the challenges, and you have to have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Jennifer Granholm | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...This play is also known as “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.” We’re not sure what it’s about, but it supposedly involves “a sleepwalker with a knife, a firebrand ex-preacher, four gin-riddled singers, a sexual maniac with a wig, a schizoaffective historical re-enactor, a histrionic man in a bathtub, his mistress, and a Spanish guitar...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Halloween Happenings | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Undergrduate Biological Sciences Society has planned “a spooky celebration of things that sparkle in the night,” during which you can “play with your very own flask of bioluminescent dinoflagellates.” Basically, this event involves “treats without tricks, brights without blights, fun without….sun.” We’re not sure what this means exactly, but hey, it’s something different...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: Halloween Happenings | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...taught English at Berlitz for four years. "The legacy of cultural protectionism is one factor, and the way foreign languages are taught in school is another. Students pass language exams only to discover they can't really speak [the language]." (Read "Plagiarism Software Finds a New Shakespeare Play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why France Is Pushing Its Students to Master English | 10/31/2009 | See Source »

...reporter, however, is anything but typical - or local. For starters, there are three unorthodox candidates: a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-union Republican; a registered independent running on the Democratic ticket; and a Conservative Party candidate who doesn't live in the district and may well win - or play the part of GOP spoiler and help elect a Democrat to a seat that has been occupied by Republicans since the 1800s - despite skipping most chances to appear publicly with his opponents. But even these three personalities aren't what make the campaign to replace former Republican Representative John McHugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GOP Civil War in Upstate New York | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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