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...league's top player on almost any other team, LT showers constant praise on his teammates, and the endless accolades he receives cause him consternation. When the best player in football suppresses his ego, how can anyone else call attention to himself? "It's learned behavior," says Chargers tight end Antonio Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Back Ever | 1/5/2007 | See Source »

...past their own limitations. Obama knows he is inexperienced, and he knows that every wave eventually crashes--and that he'll need a second, more substantive act when, after his umpteenth visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, he is no longer a novelty. He has never experienced a tight, tooth-and-claw political marathon where even the tiniest of decisions, the smallest of slips, can have profound consequences. And he knows that Clinton has. The junior Senator from New York has spent much of her career trying to stay sane in the midst of a political tornado. And now, having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why They're Both Running Against Bill | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...type of question. What anthropologists would answer that question by saying is that it's a way of bonding communities, it's a way of building bonds among people who are not necessarily related. That's a very important human ability, to go beyond the family, and create reasonably tight-knit communities. They can be pretty large, hundreds of thousands of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard-Wired to Party | 12/29/2006 | See Source »

...background. It was his wife, and she was telling him to get off the phone. Talking to me would only bring more trouble. Already, Yu had been jailed once and not been given the land usually apportioned to Qixia families when they have a child. Money was tight. But Yu kept talking. "I tell you, English-language journalist," he said, "I cannot accept what they have done to us. Even if if takes 10 years or 20 years, I will keep fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of a Chinese Democrat | 12/27/2006 | See Source »

...they’re going to play me up that tight, then I’m definitely going to try to take over,” Housman said...

Author: By Patrick T. Mcgrath, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AOTW: Point Guard Holding A Full House | 12/18/2006 | See Source »

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