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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that you have avoided joining the stampede of writers to New York? Did you ever consider that? Yes, but I really just like being home. I'm a huge homebody and I just love it here. New York is great to visit, but I just would never dream of moving anywhere. Anywhere. If it weren't for book tours, I would never leave my house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Lisa Scottoline | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

...Iraqi soldiers, like their government in Baghdad, don't appear keen to listen to the chanting. The MEK should "understand that their days in Iraq are numbered," National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie said recently. "We are literally counting them." (See behind-the-scenes pictures of President Obama's visit to Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anti-Iranian Enclave in Iraq Fights to Stay | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...make connections with all types of kids.”Wade’s departure comes on the eve of a weekend in which Harvard plays host to two of the nation’s top recruits. Blue-chippers Dwight Powell and Rod Odom are expected to visit campus this weekend, according to the Cornell Basketball Blog.The cases of particular recruits are not allowed to be discussed because of NCAA regulations, making it hard to determine just how Wade’s move could jeopardize the commitments of players with whom he has built personal relationships. For his part, Wade...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coach Departs Harvard Program | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...body—the pitfalls of having “an ideal morphology… [of] what a body should look like, move like” and whether we really live in a world where we assist each other. This discourse is all the while exemplified as they visit a second-hand clothing store to pick out a new sweater for Sunaura. “This is going to be a new show: ‘Shopping with Judith Butler,’” Sunaura quips. “For the queer eye,” Butler gamely...

Author: By Susie Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Examined Life | 4/10/2009 | See Source »

...programs, especially those that paired local police with NATO mentoring teams, seemed quite promising. Indeed, right now Afghanistan is bristling with new ideas, and the slightest sliver of hope. It is, of course, easy to be deluded by a handful of pro-Western Afghans who hazard a visit to the U.S. embassy, but there is a quality of pride and independence to these people - a consequence of their never having been successfully colonized, I'd bet - that makes a good-faith effort to help them toward stability seem almost plausible ... if it weren't for the presence of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomatic Surge: Can Obama's Team Tame the Taliban? | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

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