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The initiative system seemed rational when it was launched in 1911 to prevent railroad barons from buying off the legislature. But lots of things seemed smart back then, like having Asians focus on manual labor. Now special interests spend $100 million on advertising and can send out enough troops to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein on California's State of Insanity | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

Iran's voters had been anticipating a heated discussion in their country's first-ever presidential candidates' debate, but even then, Wednesday night's showdown between incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and moderate challenger Mir-Hossein Moussavi was a rough-and-tumble affair that exceeded expectations. And the new season of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran's Presidential Debate: Will Ahmadinejad's Attacks Backfire? | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

We saw the memorial to all the survivors - a steel plate, as Chancellor Merkel said, that is heated to 37 degrees Celsius, the temperature of the human body; a reminder - where people were deemed inhuman because of their differences - of the mark that we all share. Now these sights have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remarks at Buchenwald Concentration Camp | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

Many people on both the right and the left like to portray environmentalism as sacrifice - denying oneself some kind of pleasure (a heated pool, extra space in an SUV, the convenience of dry cleaning) in order to help save the planet. Conservatives do so partly because they believe pursuing self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Competitive Altruism: Being Green in Public | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

For a woman whose shoulders bear the burden of steering higher education’s grandest endowment through the most debilitating financial crisis in a half-century, Jane L. Mendillo cuts a decidedly unassuming figure.She speaks with measured confidence but betrays no ostentation. Her office, situated on the 16th floor...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Despite Tough Year, New HMC Chief Remains Optimistic | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

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