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...Nonetheless, both Young Jeezy and Lil’ Wayne make cameos. Kanye invited them to a pity party, but they must not have caught that first word: a medicore Jeezy verse overpowers the plodding “Amazing,” and Wayne’s wisecracks weaken Ye’s jealousy on “See You in My Nightmares.”The album nods off to live freestyle “Pinocchio Story,” and Kanye hits the depths of his self-pity when he sings, “Real life, what does...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kanye West | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

Like most other Democrats, Obama is allied with the teachers' unions, which generally oppose efforts to weaken tenure rules that protect teachers from being fired or to pay them on the basis of merit. The biggest teachers' union, the National Education Association (NEA), has 3.2 million members and committed $50 million to Obama's campaign. Now that the election is over, Rhee is filled with hope and dread about whom Obama will pick to be Education Secretary. (See pictures of teens and how they would vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama and Education | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...whole island feels on a similar knife's edge. Should Ral Castro weaken, there are still a dozen aging Ahmed Chalabis waiting in Miami to return from exile and divide the spoils among themselves. Should there be rebellion in the streets in Havana, there's still a state militancy that could bring blood to the Malecn. But the new generation of Cubans both here and abroad are of a milder bent, with gentler aspirations. A cabdriver I met launched into a familiar refrain: most of his family fled to Tampa when Fidel Castro stole their lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sound of Change: Can Music Save Cuba? | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...tangled web of party interests among Democrats prevented this from happening. According to the New York Times, President-elect Obama, apparently interested in promoting party unity, has “signaled” his interest in retaining Lieberman’s vote, while Sen. Chris Dodd is reluctant to weaken Connecticut’s power in the Senate. So Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, has decided to let Lieberman keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. As that title might indicate, this is an impossibly important committee, which, according to Senate Rule XXV, deals...

Author: By Robert G. King | Title: Politics as Usual | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...growing social and economic crisis, which tends to spill over Zimbabwe's borders, will also keep the SADC focused on Zimbabwe's political stalemate and potentially weaken Mugabe's legitimacy among his peers. "I think he cares about that," says Makumbe. "And if he doesn't care, some of his members in Zanu-PF care, because they can see the suffering of the people, and their own businesses are going to the dogs. They don't see a future for this country or themselves without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Zimbabwe, Mugabe Clings On, But His Power Is Waning | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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