Word: tellings
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...serenity, though, is illusory. The home's inhabitant is Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libya's four-decade-long leader Muammar Gaddafi. At 37, Saif finds himself at the heart of a political battle for his country's future. To hear Saif tell it, the need for reform is urgent. "The whole world is going through more freedom, more democracy," he says, pumping the air in impatience. "We want to see those changes now, instead of 10 years' time, or 15 years." (See pictures of the rise of Muammar Gaddafi...
...Since September, more than 130 people have joined Seattle clotheshorse Sally Bjornsen on her yearlong quest not to buy a single garment other than underwear. But in March, Bjornsen wrote a post about how two fellow self-deprivers had officially given up and how she wished they would tell her their reasons for doing so. "Why not just cheat and then recommit? Why flat out just call it quits?" one commenter asked. "Was it too hard? Too silly...
...something you get your hands on, something you can play with. Look at the fantabulous app from Popular Science in which each story is a wonderland that you can scroll and push and pull, moving overlay and text and stories around like a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes you can't tell advertisement from original content - and I mean this in a good way. Nothing really intrudes on the experience. If you don't like what you see, swipe it away. But if it does interest you, you can be sure there's something you can touch to lead you deeper into...
...November 1994, the Democratic presidency had been enfeebled by a series of disastrous setbacks. President Clinton decided right out of the gate to take on the polarizing issue of gays in the military, creating the widely unpopular "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. He also forced through the House an energy tax, known as the BTU tax, that would have charged all fuel sources based on their heat content; the measure failed in the Senate, and many vulnerable House Dems blamed that vote for the loss of their seats. And, of course, Clinton's attempt at health care reform...
...Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. For all the similarities between 1994 and 2010, there are important differences. The current wave of voter discontent started in August 2009, 15 months before the election; in 1994, it began just three months before Election Day. Only time will tell if the health-reform-inspired wave of hostility to the Democrats will fade by November or if the Republicans will manage to keep the issue alive. For Democrats, the challenge now is to turn the nation's attention back to other concerns, like jobs. That points to another big difference...