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...really tough when you interview somebody and they describe how they've been shot or they've lost their cousin, and you say - "Oh, you were only shot in the leg" or "It was only your cousin." The truth is I know that if under the next tree I find someone who was shot in the side and lost two of their children, that's the kind of story that will make readers pay attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnist Nicholas Kristof | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...corporate political action it spurs. Indeed, it is unclear that such growth would even occur. Before Citizens United, corporations could spend unlimited amounts of money on ads blaring, “Candidate X is an immoral, incompetent liar.” Because of Citizens United, those ads can now say, “Candidate X is an immoral, incompetent liar. Vote against him.” The difference is real, but not transformational...

Author: By Dylan R. Matthews | Title: The Limits of Good Government | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...much of a stretch for Swift, the squinty-eyed blonde delivers forced line-readings and is generally far too over the top.   Her boyfriend is played by real life boyfriend Taylor Lautner, who surprisingly displays more range as a werewolf.  Suffice it to say that this film does little for the “US Weekly” power-couple...

Author: By David G. Sklar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Valentine's Day | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...wouldn’t say [there was] extra pressure,” Casey said. “We were very limited this weekend in the frontcourt, and it was on our whole team to step out of their [usual] roles and fulfill the role the team needed...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Casey Makes Most Of Chance | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...fact that my friends and I recreated the Cold War says something about how much we have internalized and moved on from this history. What was once a vivid and real ideological division is now a trifling conceit for board games. The Berlin Wall fell in 1989, two years before most of us were born, and we take for granted that it happened and that the free marketers won. Communism has been reduced to a losing strategy, from the day we can say “free parking” or “go to jail...

Author: By James L. Wu | Title: The Meaning Behind Monopoly | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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