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Well, of course. But some of these sins are hardly worth a serious confession. As Bruce Babbitt, an engaging and now almost-forgotten Democratic candidate, pointed out half a generation ago, the U.S. is a big country - it takes time for all but the best-known politicians to make themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Splendor | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

Mattison claimed that Columbia is making a more tangible investment in the community than Harvard is in its expansion. He said that the secondary school to be built by Columbia will enroll an equal number of children who live in the community and children whose parents are affiliated with Columbia...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Columbia Expansion Approved In NYC | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

And Huckabee, like Bush in 1992, has obliged. Asked in early December to explain his rise in the polls, Huckabee pointed to divine intervention: "There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking the Golden Rule of Politics | 12/31/2007 | See Source »

If 2007 WD5 does smack into Mars, every telescope on Earth will be pointed in that direction - just as they were in 1994 when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashed into Jupiter. In that case, the comet broke up while it was still in orbit, so astronomers watched nearly two dozen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Asteroid Hurtles Toward Mars | 12/27/2007 | See Source »

Diaz describes his job as an "ongoing and daily effort to ensure that both sides of the story are told." When it's pointed out that at least 99% of the e-mails he sends to reporters are highlighting stories unflattering to Democrats, he laughs and says, with mock solicitousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP's Ambassador of Ill Will | 12/21/2007 | See Source »

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