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The celebration embodied Yemen's strong traditions of honor and hospitality and its emerging red flags. As a foreign guest, I was given the one bed in the entire house to sleep in. Family members young and old slept shoulder to shoulder, huddled in blankets on the floor. Although there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wedding in the Town of Al-Qaeda | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

Steele and the secessionists have nothing but contempt for Vermont Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy, who are otherwise considered among the most liberal members of Congress. "They've done nothing to stop the wars," says Steele flatly. Thomas Naylor was more pointed: "Every time a Vermonter serving in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secessionist Campaign for the Republic of Vermont | 1/31/2010 | See Source »

There are national implications to this fight. As Shanker pointed out, American schools have been slipping for decades - our students are now 32nd internationally in math scores, 10th in science, 12th in reading. It will be impossible to rebuild our economy - to create the sophisticated, high-paying jobs we need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Failing Our Schools | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

On policy, the President recommitted himself to health care reform, though he did not lay out a strategy for passage. He gave glancing mentions to both repealing the ban on gays in the military and confronting immigration reform but offered no clear hope for resolving those issues. He was fiercely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of the Union: A Feisty Obama, a Frosty GOP | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

The youngest woman to be elected to the City Council in 1999, Decker drew upon her background as a daughter of working class parents growing up in public housing in Cambridge and pointed to her 10-year record on the council in her speech.

Author: By Tara W. Merrigan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Decker Seeks State Senate Seat | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

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