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...lackluster campaign, seemingly unaware of the danger she was in. When the Boston Globe asked her why she held so few public events, she replied dismissively, "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold?" - a reference to one of Brown's online videos. If that weren't enough to alienate Red Sox Nation, she probably finished the job when she suggested in an interview that the team's legendary pitcher Curt Schilling (a Brown supporter) was a Yankees fan. (See TIME's Swampland blog on the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats Hold Their Breath in Massachusetts | 1/19/2010 | See Source »

...were erected to house the 5 million people who were rendered homeless by the quake. The prefab housing was made out of blue aluminum siding lined with Styrofoam insulation. It had concrete floors and was arranged in neat rows in flat spots at the bases of the mountains. Conditions weren't luxurious, but the camps were clean and the housing dry and fairly warm. (See the top 10 deadliest earthquakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti and China: A Tale of Two Earthquakes | 1/19/2010 | See Source »

...weren't they connected? One reason: there are too many dots. The NCTC's 300 analysts sort through thousands of reports a day. "Nobody's denying that the information [about Abdulmutallab] was out there, but there was lots of other information too," says an intelligence official who asked that neither he nor his agency be named. "And lots of the information is vague and doesn't rise to the level [of alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: The Intelligence Breakdown | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...they didn't hesitate to become more absurd by asking for proof of my grandparents' citizenship," says Giraud, who had planned a trip abroad and ended up obtaining a British passport by mail in a week. "Why isn't it their responsibility to prove my earlier passport and ID weren't obtained by fraud since the same administration asking for proof of citizenship now provided them?" Naulleau ultimately beat the system by requesting French citizenship through his naturalized, Bulgaria-born wife. But this isn't an option that is open to most people. (Read "Booing the 'Marseillaise': A French Soccer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the French Must Prove They're French | 1/17/2010 | See Source »

Most of us can remember spending prefrosh weekend wandering around the Yard with bright red folders that our hosts weren't merciful enough to tell us to leave in our rooms. That special weekend in spring has always formally been called the "April Visiting Program"—but it looks like that might change soon...

Author: By Kathryn C. Reed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prefrosh Weekend Gets an Extreme Name Makeover | 1/15/2010 | See Source »

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