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Paul said that he is launching a campaign to reduce postering in the Yard as part of a project for his junior Social Studies tutorial. He is currently still in the process of organizing leaders to help jumpstart the movement. Interested in this potential paper-less revolution? Read on, after...

Author: By H. Zane B. Wruble | Title: Posters Be Gone? | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

Founded in 1914, the Electricity Workers' Union had kept some families on its membership lists through six generations. It had fervently backed the nationalization of electricity grids, and assumed a central role in the state-run Light and Power company when it was formed in 1960. The union had loyally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Calderón Busting Unions or Bringing Change? | 10/14/2009 | See Source »

By the time of the Revolution, the theme of beleaguered people standing up to a superpower had become the go-to narrative of American identity. The two best-selling books of 1776 featured Moses. Thomas Paine, in Common Sense, called King George the "hardened, sullen tempered pharaoh." Samuel Sherwood, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Americans faced a similar moment of chaos after the Revolution. One Connecticut preacher noted that Moses took 40 years to quell the Israelites' grumbling: Now "we are acting the same stupid part." And so just as a reluctant Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, then handed down the Ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Moses Shaped America | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

Few things in France can provoke heated debate faster than moves to tinker with the country's vaunted public-education system, which embodies republican values that date back to the French Revolution. It's especially true when the changes involve an idea as capitalistic and nonegalitarian as paying certain students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Students Be Paid to Do Well in School? | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

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