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There are other challenges. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has submitted a radically sane Pentagon budget, which eliminates some unneeded weapons systems - and is likely to be eviscerated by members of Congress from the districts where those systems are built. "We are absolutely going to stand with Gates on this one," said an Obama aide, implying that the President would veto a same-old defense budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joe Klein on the President's Impressive Performance Thus Far | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Foods.” But Black, speaking in the midst of trying economic times, also issued a caveat. “The last thing you should worry about is income, especially in this economy,” the comedian said. “Pursuing money isn’t sane,” he later warned. Speaking after the event, Black expressed disdain for the number of students entering business fields for the sake of financial gain. Yesterday’s appearance began with a short address, after which Black conducted a long question and answer period, discussing comedy...

Author: By Laura M. Fontanills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Comedian Black Visits Kirkland House | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...based gaming software giant Entertainment Arts: "Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in question. Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the streets and attacking people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet Pirates Face Walking the Plank in Sweden | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...will nod at you understandingly, knowing the oddity and cogency of dreams. You get up and go to work, sit in board meatings. You are sane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Woman, Three Mental Hospitals | 12/30/2008 | See Source »

...left.” At the time, I took this extra-contextual detour as a strange, but earnest, act of de-maternalization—a PG-13 parable with the moral that, while we all at one point find ourselves in dens of vice, we can and should make sane decisions nonetheless. Recently though, I just can’t help but think that perhaps she was just as embarrassed by the culture that, briefly, her generation was enamored of. “I was really more into Sly,” she would trail off. So when I returned...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Disco Revival: Beyond Gaynor | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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