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Going to Church on Christmas: A Vanishing Tradition

By AMY SULLIVAN

While Christmas eve services are more popular than ever, Americans tend to stay home the next day

No Relief from the Christmas Gloom for Retailers

By STEVEN GRAY/NEW ORLEANS AND GILBERT CRUZ/NEW YORK

New figures confirm what everybody already knew: there are no happy tidings for retailers this holiday season

Will the Financial Crisis Bring Upheaval to China?

By SIMON ELEGANT / BEIJING

Dire warnings about social unrest are percolating in China and around the world. But is the regime really going to be buffeted by change?

Obama Mideast Watch: Why Dennis Ross?

By SCOTT MACLEOD

What Obama's choice of special envoy means for the Middle East.

Bangkok Gets Into the Christmas Spirit

By HANNAH BEECH

Thais immerse themselves in the spirit of Christmas without the foggiest idea who Jesus was

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Swampland

By Karen Tumulty

President Bush issued another round of pardons, including a rare posthumous one for a man convicted of selling B-17s in 1948 to Jewish resistance fighters in Israel.

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Person of the Year 2008

For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the President-elect is TIME's Person of the Year.

Quotes of the Day

"Some of those things which could once have been taken for granted suddenly seem less certain and, naturally, give rise to feelings of insecurity."

QUEEN ELIZABETH II,
in her annual speech on Christmas Day, voicing concern over the economic downturn and the turmoil it has brought

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Bangkok Gets Into the Christmas Spirit

By Hannah Beech

Thais immerse themselves in the spirit of Christmas without the foggiest idea who Jesus was

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