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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...less likely to vote for Obama as a result of his former pastor's statements. But why, exactly, are these and other voters fleeing? The answer could make the difference in Obama's chances to win the nomination and to pull out election victory in November. And it could tell us something about the state of racial politics in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, Wright: How Much Damage? | 5/3/2008 | See Source »

...publication of The Innocent, an autobiographical book by Houellebecq's maman, Lucie Ceccaldi, 83. In it, Ceccaldi calls her boy a liar, impostor, and parasite "ready to do whatever it takes to attain fortune and fame." Excerpts and previews of the tell-all tome have generated major interest in France, as critics and readers alike gaze upon the spectacle of the nation's most famously jaded and cynical Bohemian being ridiculed in public by a mother who admits in disgust: "I don't want to hear about him any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist's Mother Fires Back | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...Readers who found it hard to get through blamed me, although it’s simply the material that is difficult,” Randall said. “It would have been easy to change my presentation of physics, to fib a little, but I wanted to tell the whole story...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...Ninety percent of people who go to a doctor don’t think that science is behind this, they just say, ‘tell me how to feel better’” Hauser said. “When I enter a doctor’s office, the first thing I tell them is that I’m a biologist...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pop-Science Paradox | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...only make new pleas for information, but to perhaps rehabilitate their shaky image. Hence, the access they gave the documentary filmmaker for ITV, a major British channel, and a subsequent inteview they gave to the BBC. Moreover, the McCanns now say they may write a book to tell their side of things. "We receive dozens of requests for book deals and may consider them in the future," says Sonia Beldom, a spokesperson for the couple. News reports say a book contract could be worth $2 million. Certainly other books are in the offing, both in Britain and Portugal, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine McCann, One Year Later | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

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