Jane Devin

I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s celebrations. One day rolling into the next, despite a single digit change in the date, has never caused me to want to put on a plastic party hat and revel with the masses.This year, though, I feel a pressing need to obliterate not only 2007, but [...]

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“I am not afraid,” Benazir Bhutto told TIME magazine last month. “I am ready to die for my country.” Tragically, the courageous and beautiful Bhutto did not die for such a noble cause — but was instead murdered on December 27, along with 20 of her fellow citizens, [...]

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In the close 2000 Presidential race between Gore and Bush, many Democrats blamed Ralph Nader for throwing the election to the Republicans. Hanging chads and other voting anomalies aside, Nader’s Green Party collection of 2.74% of the vote was seen as a slap in the face to millions of Democrats who wanted a government [...]

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