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...been running a political consultancy. Did someone counsel him that the path to elder statesmanship is best taken at a waltz? DeLay says he simply discussed the plan with his wife and daughter, both fans of the show, who urged him to go for it. "They said, 'Sure, why not? Let's do it.' " His only wider aim in participating, he insists, is to win. "I'm surprised people consider it unusual that a former politician would be on a dancing show," he says. "Politics is also show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dancing with the Stars: The Tom DeLay Edition | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...students. As he puts it, if you made it through school in the gang-ridden South Side, you had a chance of making it out. And if you didn't, you might have ended up dead. "The dividing line between those two was clearly educational opportunity," he says. Sure, all kids are guaranteed seats in a classroom, but too many are taught by middling teachers in awful schools, Duncan says. "It's obvious the system's broken. Let's admit it's broken, let's admit it's dysfunctional, and let's do something dramatically different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Arne Duncan (And $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

That's a tough one. Ken Jennings wound up winning 74 times. I'm not sure we're going to see that kind of success ever again. He was with us for 4½ months. My gosh, I was spending more time with Ken Jennings than I was with my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Alex Trebek | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...challenged O'Neal to a writing contest. We each had four days to craft 400 words about Twitter, and we'd let TIME.com readers, who I'm sure are not at all biased toward celebrities, vote for the superior writer. I called O'Neal to do some pregame trash-talking, which I thought would be a better idea than doing it to his face, partly because I'm a coward and partly because his face would be so far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaq vs. Joel: An Essay-Writing Smackdown | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

With an impending surgery and a season on the bench awaiting the freshman guard, Evans will look to come back stronger for her sophomore season. On top of making sure her knee is healthy, Evans hopes to improve her conditioning while maintaining her speed and defensive prowess...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Loses Top Recruit to Injury | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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