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Piven, Jeremy •role of in Broadway's Speed-the-Plow is abandoned by due to high mercury levels of, prompting playwright David Mamet to speculate "that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

...endowment development, which is highly dependent on alumni-giving, further widens the gap between richer and poorer institutions, because wealthy universities tend to engender wealthier alumni who can give a bigger pay-back. As non-profits, universities are unbridled forces on the stock market. With no obligation to plow resources back into federal and local services, or even to spend a fixed percentage of earnings, these universities vacuum up philanthropic impulses without creating widespread good...

Author: By Paula A. Tavrow | Title: A Better Way To Give | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

Palin, Sarah •continuing fabricated concern about Bill Ayers of •Couric's most damaging question to is erroneously recalled by •inability of to stop rehashing campaign speech of •McCain aides who spread stories about ignorance of are called "jerks" by •"open doors" to "plow right on through" are sought, with God's help, by •open door to Senate seat is less likely to be plowed through by •unavoidability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...party leaders. Sarah Palin's 2012 bid kicked off over a steaming pot of moose chili under TV lights in her Alaska kitchen. The former vice-presidential candidate assured the world she was ready, should God open the door for her so much as a smidgen. "I'll plow through," she promised--as if anyone imagined otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...prepare themselves—intellectually, morally, and socially—for leadership.” It was a refreshing perspective. That’s how I wanted to envision my president—like Cincinnatus, who took leadership of Rome during a crisis and then quietly returned to his plow. Caleb was certainly preparing himself for leadership (“I love America,” he told me. “I love issues”) and maybe that was enough. I asked Carl Cannon whether he thought Caleb might have White House dreams. Caleb had been in Cannon?...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

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