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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Where can you go on campus to listen to “My Sharona,” “Jesse’s Girl,” and “Born to Run” all in a row? Where can you whip out that Ginger Spice costume you were too pre-pubescent to pull off during the actual Spice Girl heyday? Where can you watch resident tutors awkwardly pretend that you didn’t spend the last two hours pre-gaming as you trip over your Converse sneakers onto the dance floor? That?...

Author: By Emily S. Shire, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Love It: House Parties | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...attack also missed because it was hard to square with Obama himself. The description "old Chicago pol" conjures a stout machine boss wearing a porkpie hat and chomping on a stogie - not a whip-thin black guy trying to quit smoking. Nor was the Chicago machine an ingredient in Obama's political rise. "He didn't rely on the machine for his success," says David Moberg, who has covered Chicago politics closely as a longtime writer for alternative magazine In These Times. "When he ran for the state senate, Congress and the U.S. Senate, he was opposed by the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Chicago Way Helped Obama | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...leadership. Simply put, Obama looked more “presidential” than McCain.How can John McCain—war hero, statesmen, four-term senator—not look presidential? Despite preconceptions, McCain managed to pull off exactly that. Before the debate, McCain claimed he would “whip [Obama’s] you-know-what.” This is an odd thing to hear from a candidate who criticized Obama’s promise to meet with foreign leaders without pre-conditions by proclaiming, “You don’t say that out loud...

Author: By George Hayward | Title: Presidentiality | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...Whip It Good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...leaving the cost to the Federal Government far greater than the risky $700 billion investment in the private sector. If this comes to pass, the historians will find many people to blame: Paulson and President Bush for failing to explain the plan better. The House leadership for failing to whip enough votes. Even the presidential candidates for failing to use their bully pulpit to force the issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bailout Defeat: A Political Credibility Crisis | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

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