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...past political eccentricities, his recent threat to help Republicans block key parts of the federal health-care legislation has angered more than a few people, including the notorious left-wing documentary director Michael Moore. Never one to sit on the sidelines when there’s a statement to be made, Moore has called upon his loyal fans to boycott all Connecticut businesses and institutions until Senator Lieberman comes to his (theoretical) senses. Moore’s plan is not only ill-conceived but also harmful, and harmful to the wrong people. Connecticut business owners have enough troubles in light...
...Immediately following Woods' televised statement, two TIME editors who have followed his career closely, Romesh Ratnesar and Bill Saporito, gave their reactions...
...Cleon Skousen, which argues that the Founding Fathers set up the U.S. on firm Christian bedrock and designed the Constitution to maximize individual liberty and free enterprise. Speaker after speaker commended the volume, a favorite of Glenn Beck's, and though it is far from Skousen's most extreme statement, with Skousen, even the mild stuff is controversial. A proponent of the idea that Wall Street bankers are plotting to replace the Constitution with a new world order, Skousen roamed so far beyond the fringe that his own Mormon church distanced itself from his work and the thoroughly conservative magazine...
...anyway, only authenticity" and insisted on her "right to copy and transform" other people's work, taking a stand against what she called the "copyright excesses" of the past decade. Nonetheless, her publishing company, Ullstein, seemed to care about the possible legal ramifications of her actions, and issued a statement saying it had contacted Airen's publishing company and asked for retroactive authorization of the disputed passages. Ullstein also said it had already obtained permission for Hegemann to use another passage in the text by American author David Foster Wallace, which it had known about before the book's release...
...pioneers like White, who has given the sport legitimacy and near mainstream acceptance, now there's at least a grudging respect between the two camps. "I wouldn't say there's a rivalry," says Rick Bower, a half-pipe coach for the U.S. team. He stops to reconsider that statement. "There is a little bit, I guess." (Watch TIME's video "As Vonn Wins, a 'Bluebird' Day for Whistler Skiers...