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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...book that she gave you the gift of grace. Right. It's not the book I thought I would write. I thought I would write something that was just funny. But I don't have control over that; my subconscious does the writing. And I like it better than I would have, I think. It's got some stories in there that are a little heavy for holiday reading. But holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Augusten Burroughs | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

Nearly three minutes after Princeton’s first score, Alyssa Pyros batted a shot into the air above the glove of Tassopoulos for her first goal of the game. Pyros struck again two minutes later, this time keeping the ball on the ground as it rolled into the right side of the net, giving the Tigers the commanding 3-0 lead. On Princeton’s third penalty corner in the 16th minute, Donovan got her second score, this time off a pass from Katie Reinprecht...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No. 4 Princeton Hands Crimson Shutout Loss | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...former Golden Gloves boxer, seems convinced - perhaps by the fans who still snap up his bobblehead dolls on eBay or stop him on the street to pose for pictures - that he can brawl his way back to respectability. "When the facts come out, the people will get it right," he says. "I've always trusted the people's good sense, and I've never lost an election." (Read a brief history of impeachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rod Blagojevich Still Wants Your Vote | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...that the prop hairbrush I used was too small," says Joey Bland, the 31-year-old actor who played Blagojevich, alluding to the former governor's immaculate coif. Bland recalls that Blagojevich was "unbelievably civil, nice almost to the point that we wondered, You know this isn't positive, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rod Blagojevich Still Wants Your Vote | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Election observers have asked for more such stations to be closed, citing fears of continued abuses, but they also recognize the need to balance rural areas' right to vote with the risk of fraud. Haroun Mir, director of Afghanistan's Center for Research and Policy Studies, says such an approach risks alienating the very people whom a new President needs most to ensure his legitimacy. "If the Independent Election Commission doesn't open sites where the Taliban is strong, they are telling the Pashtuns in the south that your vote doesn't count," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Runoff: Will It Be a No-Show Election? | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

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