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Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander will be the fourth poet ever to read at a presidential Inauguration. Alexander spoke to TIME about poetry's place in American life, her kids' fundraising efforts on behalf of Barack Obama and the challenge of writing poetry on a deadline. (See pictures of the best Obama Inaugural merchandise...
...opened the door and 17 surprised faces met my sheepish one. It was Rosh Hashanah and I was Jewish in Rome, home of all things Catholic.An Orthodox woman dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and below-the-knee skirt approached the door. She looked confused. “I spoke to Moshe,” I said. A pause.“Moshe? Chi è Moshe?” she said.Earlier that week, I had phoned Rome’s Chabad House, a chapter of the movement that promotes Jewish culture and community in cities around the world...
...Bush spoke from the East Room of the White House, filled with a friendly audience drawn from his Administration and honored guests. But the assembled crowd was merely the backdrop - the real audience was history. He knows he has lost the short-term argument, the one measured in opinion polls and approval ratings. This was a speech aimed at the long run. (See pictures of President Bush in the Middle East...
...viewers, Todd's analysis of election arcana, especially during the drawn-out Democratic primary, was an invaluable guidebook on the campaign trail. Recently named NBC's chief White House correspondent, Todd has written a book on the race along with NBC's Sheldon Gawiser, How Barack Obama Won. He spoke with TIME about where the media's election coverage went wrong, how bloggers make him nicer and why his famed facial hair isn't going anywhere...
...early to tell how Obama's call to service will perform when put up against other great presidential pleas of the past. Long after Kennedy, President George H.W. Bush spoke out about "a thousand points of light," and President Bill Clinton founded AmeriCorps to recruit more young people into public service. All those efforts were relatively effective, for a time. But never before has a sitting President put so much faith in new technology to make it all happen...