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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...citizenry who are mad enough not to take it any more. That's unlikely to happen. Moore's films are among the top-grossing documentaries in history because they are pertinent populist entertainments. The question remains: will Capitalism: A Love Story rouse the rabble to revolt? Or will audiences sit appreciatively through the movie, then go home and play the cat-in-the-toilet video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Moore's Capitalism Goes for Broke | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

...right-hand drivers; earlier in its history, carriage and horse traffic traveled on the left, as it did in England. But by the late 1700s, the theory goes, teamsters driving large wagons pulled by several pairs of horses began prompting a shift to the right. A driver would sit on the rear left horse in order to wield his whip with his right hand; to see opposite traffic clearly, the teamsters traveled on the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Don't We All Drive on the Same Side of the Road? | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...friend, Catherine P. Humphreville ’10, also an Adams resident, added that she wouldn’t want to sit with tourists gawking...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus To Unfold New Seats | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...First of all, it’s going to be freezing in no time, and secondly, who stops in the middle of the Yard to sit?” she added...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Campus To Unfold New Seats | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...traditionalists hoped (in vain) that Kennedy, a longtime abortion rights and gay-marriage supporter, wouldn't even be allowed a Catholic funeral. Others hoped (also in vain) that Boston's Archbishop, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who has declared that voting for pro-choice Catholic politicians "borders on scandal," would sit out the Saturday funeral. Though the main celebrant was former president of Boston College Rev. Donald Monan, a Jesuit and longtime Kennedy family friend, O'Malley was there to give the final commendation at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica. (See a Kennedy family photo album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Response to Ted Kennedy's Letter: Pro Forma | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

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