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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...titles of every other book Hume wrote; don’t just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...

Author: By A Grader | Title: A Grader’s Reply | 1/15/2008 | See Source »

...ridge ahead dropped away, and we could see Tibet in front of us, that I realized we must be pretty close to the summit. Up above us the snow rounded off into a dome, and we realized that that must be the top. It's not a really sharp summit - the sort you hold your hands around. It's a summit that you can stand on reasonably comfortably. Six or eight people could probably all stand together. A nice summit. I took my oxygen off and took photographs down all the leading ridges, just to make sure I had plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with the Last Adventurer | 1/12/2008 | See Source »

...been very much a referendum on her," said strategist Mark Penn on the press plane east from Iowa. During private sessions that spread through the weekend, the internal Clinton campaign discussion alternated between how to hit Obama and how to help her. "You're going to see some very sharp media now," an adviser promised. Aides threw out charges one after another in emails and in conference calls with reporters - about Obama's vote for the Patriot Act, his relationship with lobbyists, his violation of election rules governing robocalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Voters' Revenge | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...Barack Obama, the people of Iowa have shown they want change," is now a standard line in Romney's stump speech - while also painting him as a dangerous radical: "The nation wants us to move forward, but," he says, referring to Obama, "do we want it to be a sharp left? Following in the path of the Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Romney, Silver Getting Dull | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...been determined to do as well. But I think it is fair that a lot of people may not have known what motivated me or what I get up every day thinking about and as we had this intense period in New Hampshire, it just put everything in such sharp focus that I believed I was able better to break through and connect with people on a very personal level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton: I Was Able to Connect | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

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