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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...result is an amplification of the process at the expense of the issues. Despite his pretensions at substance, Cohen falls prey to this trap, and while this may thrill those who find the electoral process more thrilling than their 21st birthday, the book is unbearable for the less politically inclined—or at least those more interested in the substance than the process...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politicans Can Rumble and Romance, But They Can’t Write | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...lives. Another priest, a church historian, points out that the habits of obedience, especially in a hierarchical religion like Catholicism, are particularly hard to break. And O?Grady was the kind of man who is capable of seducing a mother in order to gain easier access to his real prey, her children, both male and female. The trail of ruined lives he left behind - men and women incapable of marriage, of normal sexual lives - is a palpable sadness in this film. And that says nothing about the damage he did to the religious beliefs that were so important in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Predator Priest | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...effect the scandal has on voters--that is very much a matter of how scared parents have become. It's the difference between "The G.O.P. leadership messed up in a sex scandal" and "The G.O.P. leadership went soft on one of those monsters who are out there waiting to prey on my kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Foley's Real Sin Was ...: Breaking America's Favorite Taboo | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...been over 100 years and needs a total evaluation for the sake of the kids," he said. "Having 15- and 16-year-old young men and women come to Washington, work on the House floor, and work in an environment where members of Congress if they want to can prey on them is not a healthy situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time to Close the Book on Washington Pages? | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...found in the annual spawning of chum salmon, which turns the nearby Squamish River into a floating buffet that North America's iconic raptors find irresistible. Spawning season runs from mid-November to mid-February, and the best way to get close to the eagles swooping in on their prey is to join an "eagle safari" - one of the rafting expeditions organized by Canadian Outback Adventures, canadianoutback.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Early Birds | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

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