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...from its last bittersweet pages ready to drug-test your Little Leaguer, if that's what it will take to keep him safe. That's extreme, obviously, but Lamott, though a fierce advocate of civil rights and social justice, wouldn't rule it out for teens who seem at risk...
...irony is overpowering, says Lowenstein. "Less than a generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when prevailing orthodoxy held that the free market could govern itself, and when financial regulation seemed destined for near irrelevancy, the United States was compelled to socialize lending and mortgage risk, and even the ownership of banks, on a scale that would have made Lenin smile...
TIME has a long history with Steve Jobs. We first put him on the cover in 1982 for a story about what we called "America's risk takers" - and he has been taking risks ever since. Over the years, Jobs has given us behind-the-scenes access to Apple's product development, as when we did a feature about the launch of the iPhone three years ago. This time, in anticipation of the iPad's launch, we sent out the English writer, actor and technology geek Stephen Fry to spend some time with Jobs and his team...
...name recognition of Mission Hill helps draw in a consistent and sufficient number of volunteers each year, overcoming the attrition problems facing many other volunteer organizations. But the rapid transitions of volunteers and leadership runs the risk of blurring the institutional history of the program...
...reluctant to reflexively defy the President on his choice to replace Stevens before the process has officially begun. In addition, given Republicans' recent opposition to using the filibuster in judicial confirmations and Democrats' still strong 59-seat Senate majority, conservative politicians who brandish the court card would run the risk of whipping their base into a lather in anticipation of an epic fight with the President, only to watch a new Justice seated with little struggle shortly before the midterms in November. (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...