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Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
time.com - 12/17/2008
Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
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(4 of 6) Yes, Obama could talk — like nobody's business — but talk didn't win the election. According to the daily tracking polls, the tumblers clicked into place precisely at the moment the financial hurricane hit, when the wizards of Wall Street proved as incompetent as Oz and neither the ...
Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
time.com - 12/17/2008
Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008
— time.com — You probably sat in a fancier conference room the last time you refinanced or heard a pitch... about life insurance. There's a table, some off-brand mesh office chairs, a bookcase that looks as if it had been put together with an Allen wrench and ... (more) Why History Can't Wait - Person of the Year 2008

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John P. Holdren - Curriculum Vitae
whrc.org - 12/18/2008
John P. Holdren - Curriculum Vitae
— whrc.org — Byers, Stephen (Co-chair), Olympia Snowe (Co-chair), Bob Carr, John P. Holdren, Martin Khor Kok-Peng, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Claude... Martin, Tony McMichael, Jonathon Porritt, Adair Turner, Ernst Ulrich von Weizs cker, Ni Weidou, Timothy E. Wirth, ... (more) John P. Holdren - Curriculum Vitae

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talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/22/2008
Major Error in Judgment
— talkingpointsmemo.com — I first noticed this on Atrios's blog. Jennifer Palmieri, who's acting CEO of the Center for American... Progress while John Podesta is working on the transition, did a forcible 'guest post' on Matt Yglesias's blog, which is now hosted at CAP, ... (more) Major Error in Judgment

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TPM Election Central:  Election Central Morning Roundup

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Election Central Morning Roundup
TPM Election Central — ... Barack Obama has been declared "Person Of The Year" by Time, an honor that is almost always given to a newly-elected president: ...

Person of the year shocker
Ben Smith's Blog — It's Obama. Rick Stengel calls him the "quintessential" person of the year; sure beats "you."

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