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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Staples on the corner of JFK and Winthrop St. doesn't seem like it would be a lightning rod for controversy. But somebody seems upset: Earlier this week, an unknown protester plastered the wall outside Staples' door and the stairs leading up to the office supply store with signs that declared, "This Staples doesn't recycle...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: A Minor Scandal at Staples | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...Liberal Democrats (LDP). At his first presser since officially assuming the post, he asked the Japanese people for patience. "Through trial and error, we may make mistakes," he said. "But I would like the Japanese people to be gentle with us." He continued, "This is an encounter with the unknown, and we're embarking on a trip that we've never experienced." His Cabinet appointments immediately received praise. But a big question remains: How will he work with Ichiro Ozawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's New Prime Minister — and New Shadow Shogun | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...Death Becomes Them is about filling in these gaps? Exactly. Each of these characters left not only unanswered questions but unrealized talent and unknown potential as well. We'll never know what else van Gogh might have painted. Or how another Diane Arbus portrait might have turned out. Or how a later Hemingway novel might have read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mysteries Behind Society's Most Famous Suicides | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

Nine days after she won the women's 800-m world championship as an all but unknown in Berlin, Caster Semenya returned home to the plains of Limpopo, the northernmost province of South Africa, to escape the uproar that had enveloped her since she'd crossed the finish line. Semenya, 18, finds herself as not only one of the world's best athletes but also among its most controversial, under investigation by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) not for cheating or doping but for allegedly not being female. "Coach used to tell me there are many ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home of South Africa's Gender Bending Runner | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...keeping with Motown simplicity (“Let’s make jam when life gives us a peach”) the song maintains a meaningful ambiguity. Joining the ranks of great uncertain love songs, “If It’s True” embraces the unknown, with the band pledging solidarity even as they question the notion of soulmates, romantic or otherwise (“Maybe it’s not quite right / But we’ll find out if it’s true”). Clocking in at just over two and a half...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yo La Tengo | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

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