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The clock was against him as tens of thousands of Yalies screamed to disrupt his game-calling. A tough defense stood in his way, and when junior Collier Winters got the ball back with less than twelve minutes in the game, he knew all of these obstacles had to be...

Author: By Matt Chuchul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Field General Pulls Through in Clutch | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

But having come this far, can Washington really afford to just walk away from the health care problem, leaving tens of millions uninsured and health costs spiraling upward? That's really the question that the Senate must now face. As Republican turned Democrat Arlen Specter put it on Fox News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans Plot Their Health Care Attack Strategy | 11/23/2009 | See Source »

Meanwhile, national efforts to bring this decades-long insurgency to a swift end are also intensifying. India's new hard-line Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, is not convinced that states, if left to their own devices, will be able to reassert state authority over Naxal-dominated territories anytime soon. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Steps Up Its Fight Against Naxalites | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Despite this pathetic record, fears of voter fraud have served to justify restrictive laws and tactics that end up disqualifying eligible voters. Six swing states, using flawed and possibly illegal criteria, purged “tens of thousands” of eligible voters from their rolls in the run-up...

Author: By Sam Barr | Title: You Give Fraud a Bad Name | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

This is the second prominent apology Rudd has made since he took office in a landslide election in 2007. The first was to the "stolen generation" - tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children who were removed from their families between 1869 to 1969 by the government. (See...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia Apologizes to Abused Child Migrants | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

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