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...Clues is a series of novels about two orphans named Dan and Amy Cahill. At the start of the first book, The Maze of Bones, just now appearing in bookstores, their beloved grandmother Grace has just died, and all the far-flung members of the Cahill family have gathered round to hear the reading of the will. They are treated to the astounding revelation that the Cahills are in fact secretly the most powerful family in the world. It turns out that just about everybody important in the history of modern civilization - Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Houdini - was actually...
...radical pro-immigration advocate, because I believe that our ability to cream off the first-round intellectual draft choices from around the world remains one of our great competitive advantages. We should pin a green card to any foreign student who comes here and gets a Ph.D...
...scenes were a stirring show of defiance from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), which won the first round of a general election on March 29 and came out ahead in a simultaneous presidential race. Since then, for its insolence, the party has been punished by security forces: 166 people have been killed, according to Human Rights Watch, and tens of thousands more displaced...
...start with the obvious: the party is flat on its back. According to the Pew Research Center, through August 2008, the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Republican is lower than in any of the previous 15 years. The party is probably headed for another round of deep losses in the House and Senate. Asked recently by the Pew Center to choose between a generic Democrat and a generic Republican for Congress, registered voters under 30 gave the Democrats a 22-point lead...
...declared the end of the era of big government can make a more powerful statement by declaring the end of another era, his own era, an era of small politics. You could call it the Clinton-Bush era, an era of partisan war rooms and poll-tested spin and round-the-clock gamesmanship designed to win the next news cycle. It would be hard to imagine a more compelling proponent of Obama's claim to a new politics than a legendary victim as well as an adept practitioner of the old politics...