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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Littleton, at the western end of Arapahoe County, which wraps around to the east of Denver before shooting 70 miles (112 km) out toward the prairie. Littleton is the county seat and one of Arapahoe's few remaining affluent suburbs. Eng's campaign operates out of a strip mall that has seen better days, wedged between Pathways Home Care Center and an unadventurous-looking storefront called Adventures in Dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Turn Colorado Blue? | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...insisting that "the hard-line crowd is irrational. They want to incite people to fear, and that is a dangerous thing to watch." Says ASU's Berman: "These guys are not easy to please. These guys were even after [conservative icon Barry] Goldwater for a while. They wanted to strip his name off party headquarters. You really have to toe the line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Republican Enemies in His Home State | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...former leader in the rightist Likud Party who for decades staunchly believed that the West Bank and Gaza Strip belonged to the Jewish people and that the territories, along with the Golan Heights, should remain part of Greater Israel forever. Along with former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Ehud Olmert gradually came to understand that this was a fantasy. They broke away from Likud and created the centrist Kadima ("Onward") Party three years ago. Now, as Olmert hands the reins to Tzipi Livni and leaves office amid a corruption scandal, he's made a series of stunning departure statements that form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olmert's Lame-Duck Epiphany About Palestinian Peace | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...leads me into a bright room with tropical plants. I strip off my shirt and trousers and lie on a massage table. (Just as I am psyching myself up for the treatment, I see one of the little snakes, with a string of brick-colored diamonds along its spine, open its mouth impossibly wide. Is it going to strike? No--it coughs up a half-digested mouse, leading me to assume that the snake is as queasy about giving me a massage as I am about getting one.) When Barak plops a writhing tangle of snakes on my belly, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spa That Slithers | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...against Sarah Palin on Oct. 2, Biden must be cautioned to avoid his powerful urge to bring a laminated copy of his sat scorecard to the podium or to toss any well-meaning compliments at his opponent that include the word gams. It's probably a good idea to strip him of his beloved 4-lb. cuff links before he launches into any working-class-hero stuff as well. Palin should leave the overcooked hockey metaphors in the penalty box, lest we hear some clunker about the "puck" of reform smashing through the good-ol'-boy goalies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There They Go Again | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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