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...been for the bank bailouts and the Obama stimulus package, the country would have slid into a deep recession that might have prevented a lot of Tea Partyers from buying their $549 tickets to ride. Then again, any sentence that begins with "Most economists" is a license to snore in tea party nation. And Palin will, quite often, veer from simplicity to duplicity. She was the inventor of the mythic, noxious "death panels." In Nashville, she retailed nonsense about stimulus funds going to nonexistent districts. (A spokesman for Vice President Joe Biden, who is monitoring the stimulus package, told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Her Party: The Brilliance of Sarah Palin | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...unlike Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, his latest, Chronic City, is set across the East River, in a Manhattan just a few degrees askew from reality. Lethem spoke to TIME about the American obsession with its own pop culture and why book readings are typically a snore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...These new stores-within-a-store aren't a total snore for the toddler set. "R" Markets will also sell decidedly nonessential, kid-friendly products like Pez dispensers, gumball machines and a host of other candy brands that will keep dentists employed for a millennium. Plus, most products have a kid-friendly feel - Elmo and Grover on the juice boxes, food packaged as "P'Sghettti Loops," toddler toothbrushes and such. Still, the intent of the "R" Market is clear. With nondiscretionary products like toys more vulnerable to consumer-spending swings, Toys "R" Us needs to give parents more reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Toys "R" Us Sell Toilet Paper? | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and Philip Roth was one of your professors. Wasn't law school a snore after that? No, law school was fantastic! I loved law school. I teach law now at Penn; I teach a course that I developed called Justice and Fiction. Law school is the most academically rigorous environment I've ever been in, and I just love that. The bottom line is, what you're talking about in law school is "What is justice?" That's what I'm writing about, too. What is right and wrong? What I like about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Lisa Scottoline | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

Peter: Um, I’m color blind? Oh, I snore...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: They are smart, we promise | 3/31/2009 | See Source »

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