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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...whom will President-Elect Obama tap for this enormous task? That announcement isn't expected until at least early next week. But here's a look at some of the presumed contenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Obama Pick as Secretary of Education? | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...That feeling of commitment as an American was latent and under the surface, and Obama really gave voice to that feeling.” Novey added, “The candidates that do well are the ones who figure out what the movements are in society and tap into what people are already feeling.” Harvard Kennedy School professor Thomas E. Patterson also said that student interest in politics was not fleeting. “I do think this moment has created a lot of interest,” he said, “and I don?...

Author: By Pooja Venkatraman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Election Energized by Youth Vote | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...bull to a tree, then hobbled it, and asked me to hold the beast's head to the ground as he drew a machete across its jugular. "Hold this guy down now," said Malik, 50, eyeing the animal's horns as blood poured from its throat like an open tap. "He could kill me now." After five minutes, the blood flow began to slow, and the fight went out of the animal, which stopped kicking and lay still, breathing heavily. "O.K., it's over," said Malik. "Fine animal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Obama's Kenyan Village, an Election Day 'Bloodbath' | 11/4/2008 | See Source »

Participating in the pilot program would have cost students $110 for a Slingbox and $55 each month for service, which could have been split among friends and roommates. Some students already use Slingboxes to tap into their home cable service, but individual boxes are more costly than those under Castine’s proposal...

Author: By Alex M. Mcleese, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cable in Dorms Unlikely To Fly | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...Spin City: The Complete First Season Deceiving the media was never more delightful than in this 1996 sitcom set in New York's city hall. As Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty, tap-dancing for the press while managing a gaffe-machine mayor (Barry Bostwick), Michael J. Fox is a breath of fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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