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Dates: during 2000-2009
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By staring at hours of video footage of houses, vehicles and people, analysts looking at screens in Nevada can detect "patterns of life analyses," or timelines of movements and meetings in any given area. But the drones' utility is dramatically enhanced when analysts know exactly what they're looking for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA's Silent War in Pakistan | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

When I received my readers’ comments on my thesis last month, they both praised the essay’s “creativity,” while informing me, in very polite terms, that it lacked the “rigor” that defines academic scholarship. I...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All At Sea | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

On May 21, when he met her for the first time, Obama, a former law professor, engaged Sotomayor in a lengthy discussion about the court and the Constitution. "What the President told us," an Obama senior adviser said later, "was that he was very struck by her discussion of her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sonia Sotomayor: A Justice Like No Other | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

What those decisions offer is a portrait of a moderately liberal jurist, one who may disappoint activists on the left who were hoping that Obama would choose a two-fisted progressive to trade punches with Justice Antonin Scalia, who anchors the conservative end of the court. On Thursday, when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Moderately Liberal Mind of Sonia Sotomayor | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

Oprah, who had taken the memoir to heart back when she thought it was nonfiction, promoted it to best-sellerdom through her book club and went so far as to call Larry King Live to defend Frey during a show questioning the veracity of A Million Little Pieces. After The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World's Most Shocking Apology: Oprah to James Frey | 5/13/2009 | See Source »

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