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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...extremists" [Aug. 31]. I am a moderate Republican with a degree in economics and an M.B.A. I was a career military officer and now work in the defense industry. I do not view myself as an extremist. I oppose Obamacare solely on policy and fiscal issues. Klein would be wise in the future to use less accusatory language in his writings. Bill Walters, Maitland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...move to the guest cottage next door. A brilliant solution - until the first tenants they found were a complete nightmare, calling and e-mailing every day with a string of complaints and demands. "We definitely did things differently the second time around," says Feehan. Word to the wise: when a potential tenant's references don't call you back, quickly apply the breaks. (Read "Home Sales Perk Up, but Expensive Houses Languish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidental Landlords: Renting What Won't Sell | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...We’ve always had the best defense in the league,” senior cornerback Derrick Barker says. “[My] freshman and sophomore year, I know it was the best defense statistically as well as talent-wise...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '09: Secondary Returns for Encore Performance | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq because there must be, or because it is “obvious,” or because Saddam says so; ...) and demanding more and better evidence. But there ought to be an articulatable and reasoned distinction between such wise and helpful skepticism and obsessive and irrational denialism...

Author: By Stephen M. Jacoby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LETTERS: Balancing Skepticism and Offense | 9/16/2009 | See Source »

...Professor Langdon). His inner struggle is between his own native academic skepticism and the ever mounting evidence that the world contains something miraculous that said skepticism can't account for. "You, like many educated people, live trapped between worlds," a wise priest (he's also a Mason!) tells him. "One foot in the spiritual, one foot in the physical. Your heart yearns to believe ... but your intellect refuses to permit it." Langdon should get together with Agent Mulder from The X-Files - they'd have a lot to talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Good Is Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol? | 9/15/2009 | See Source »

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