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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...speak openly at Notre Dame, who's going to want to come here?' MAX YOUNG, a student at the South Bend, Ind., university, where plans to have President Barack Obama deliver May's commencement address have stirred outrage among antiabortion Catholics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...turns out, can't even fake humility through transparently self-deprecating jokes. So my desire to be in magazines and on TV and on the stage of your child's school play is not a problem. "If you were living in Greek times and decided you wanted to speak in front of the Athenian assembly, does that mean you're a narcissist or that you wanted to participate in the institution of the times?" Pinsky asks. I'm not sure, but I do know that he nailed my main reason for hoping someone discovers a time machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Joel Stein Is Not a Narcissist | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Following his time at Cambridge's top two universities, his holiness will speak at two events in Foxborough, MA, both of which are open to the public (for a fee). The morning talk will be an introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and its four noble truths. The afternoon talk is called "A Path to Peace and Happiness." Tickets for both the morning and afternoon events, held in Gillette Stadium, cost $37.50. Tickets for the afternoon event only cost $22.50—proving once and for all that happiness is not free...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: His Holiness on Happiness | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...despite all this, 20,000 people gathered in Prague to hear America’s new leader speak this weekend, and by all accounts Obama was a smashing success. His Czech appearance proves once again that he has the charm and tact it takes to work with any country—no matter how much it supports U.S. policies...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Prague-nosis: Excellent | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...University of Maryland's College Park campus scheduled a screening at its student center for April 4, and some 150 students purchased advance tickets at $5 a pop. The student union also invited a Planned Parenthood representative to speak about safe sex, which is presumably not a central plot point in the swashbuckling film. After news broke of the event, administrators said in a statement that they initially viewed the showing as "an opportunity to engage students in a discussion about the national dialogue revolving around pornography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirates XXX: One University's Battle over Porn | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

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