Tuesday, November 11, 2008

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Today's Top Stories

After the Gay-Marriage Debacle, Activists Rethink Tactics

By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER

Even as a legal challenge goes forward against California's constitutional change, some gay activists wonder if marriage equality is a losing proposition

Will Online Sales Brighten a Bleak Holiday Season?

By KRISTINA DELL

Big deals, free shipping and souped-up web sites reveal how much retailers have riding on a big wave of Christmas web shoppers

The Bizarre Race to Be Jerusalem's Mayor

By TIM MCGIRK / JERUSALEM

The Holy City is the prize of three candidates: an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, a right-wing software engineer and an unfortunate Russian billionaire

Why Circuit City Busted, While Best Buy Boomed

By ANITA HAMILTON

On Nov. 10, the country's No. 2 electronics retailer, Circuit City, filed for bankruptcy. Why that's no surprise.

Tales of Woe from Real Estate Agents

By STEPHEN GANDEL

At the annual realtors convention there's bad news, hardship — and a flicker of hope

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Swampland

By Jay Newton-Small

Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman has been coveting Energy Committee Chairman John Dingell's job for, well, decades. But never before has Waxman so directly challenged Dingell — who has sat atop the committee for 28 years — so directly.

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George Carlin Quotes

The Kennedy Center posthumously awarded this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to George Carlin. TIME takes a look at some of the legendary comedian's most memorable lines

Quotes of the Day

"If it's something that's going to be good for my family, my state, my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plough on through it."
SARAH PALIN,
governor of Alaska, discussing the possibility of running for President in 2012 during her first sit-down interview since the presidential election
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Tehran

Iranians Hope Obama Lives Up to His Name

By Nahid Siamdoust

In the Shi'ite Muslim tradition, the name Hussein means a revered fighter for justice. That, and the promise of dialogue, has many Iranians optimistic about the new U.S. President

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