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Where Are the Best High Schools in the U.S.?
'U.S. News and World Report' has released its annual ranking of the best public high schools in the country. Hint: yours probably isn't on it.
The Walking Dead Watch: Judge, Jury, Executioner
On last night's episode, a debate about whether or not to execute an outsider ends in a most tragic way.
Second Acts.
"Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power," declared Thomas Jefferson upon departing the...
Is There a Second Act for George W. Bush?
"Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power," declared Thomas Jefferson upon departing the...
Founding Fighters
America's first president, George Washington, is on Mount Rushmore. So is the third, Thomas Jefferson. But there is only the merest crevice between them where...
History: Declarations of Faith.
The narrow margin of the last presidential election left those on the losing side second-guessing themselves. Many of them blamed the loss on the opposition's...
History: Dinner-Party Diplomacy.
With barely more than a year and a half left in his term, George W. Bush has finally pulled out a centuries-old weapon in the political arsenal of Washington...
History: In a New York State of Mind
New York Senator and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani continue to run at or near the top of Democratic and Republican presidential polls, as they have...
Art: The Impermanent Collection
When he died in 1946, Alfred Stieglitz, the great photographer and tireless promoter of modern art, left his estate to his wife, the painter Georgia O'Keeffe...
The Condi Diary: Night Flight to Egypt
TIME's Elaine Shannon is traveling with the U.S. Secretary of State and will be filing regular dispatches from the four-day mission. On the night flight to...
