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07:46 - 27.06.2009
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From the Los Angeles Times Opinion Too much Michael Jackson? Newspaper editors and TV producers undercut the value of serious news media when they let website hits and social media volume dictate their coverage. Tim Rutten June 27, 2009 Given his recklessly eccentric and peripatetic personal life, Michael Jackson's premature death seems almost foreordained -- one of those deaths Yeats had in mind when he wrote of a friend's lost son: "What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?" Still, the global outpouring of grief and the frenzy of public attention focused since Thursday on Jackson's death is an acknowledgment not only of his popularity but of the reach and influence of America's most successful export: popular culture. Jackson was an icon and, in the end, perhaps, a prisoner of that now all-pervasive, world-girdling force. American popular culture's triumphant appeal around the world is the product of several forces: First among them is this country's historic aversion to assigning distinct values to high and low culture. Some would say the result has been a pervasive Philistinism -- that, as Oscar Wilde put it, "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." Others would say that a level playing field has opened high culture -- literature and classical music, for example -- to a valuable cross-fertilization with popular media and made it more vigorous by forcing it to compete for its audience. The real strength of American popular culture, in fact, is its democratic impulse -- a willingness to take into account the reality that, for most people, entertainment is an end in itself. American entertainment bows to what economists call "consumer…
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09:01 - 05.10.2009
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Gerald Shargel, the lawyer for alleged David Letterman extortionist Robert Halderman, says Letterman is a "master at manipulation"-- and hinted there's more to the sordid story, which Letterman... Read Full Story
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08:40 - 04.01.2013
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White House gears up for fight over immigrationDavid Nakamura and Tara Bahrampour The Obama administration has decided to ease visa requirements for hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.
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07:39 - 28.05.2009
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Roland Burris From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roland Wallace Burris United States Senator from Illinois Incumbent Assumed office December 31, 2008 Serving with Dick Durbin Preceded by Barack Obama 39th Illinois Attorney General In office January 14, 1991 – January 9, 1995 Governor Jim Edgar Preceded by Neil Hartigan Succeeded by Jim Ryan 3rd Illinois Comptroller In office January 8, 1979 – January 14, 1991 Governor James R. Thompson Preceded by Michael Bakalis Succeeded by Dawn Clark Netsch Born August 3, 1937 (age 71) Centralia, Illinois(1937-08-03) Nationality American Political party Democratic Spouse Berlean M. Burris Children Rolanda S. Burris Roland W. Burris II Residence Chatham, Chicago, Illinois Alma mater Howard University School of Law (J.D.) Southern Illinois University Carbondale (B.A.) Profession Attorney, former financial executive Religion Baptist Roland Wallace Burris (born August 3, 1937)[1] is the junior United States Senator from the state of Illinois, and a Democrat. He is the third Black U.S. Senator from Illinois, after Carol Moseley Braun and Barack Obama. Burris is currently the only African-American in the U.S. Senate. Burris was appointed by Democratic Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich…
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09:08 - 16.12.2011
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‘Mission Impossible’ on Cruise control The series has become all action and shots set to show Tom in the most manly lightRunning, jumping, scaling glass walls, driving random BMWs - Ethan can do it all, and by extension so can Cruise, a case of self flattery-by-proxy that as both the series and its lead actor ages, has begun to take on the whiff of compensatory overkill. (From the looks of a quick Durer-esque sketch he pens on his palm, Ethan is even an accomplished artist.)
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If the President doesn't run the government, then who does? |
The Unaccountable Executive If the President doesn't run the government, then who does? If the scandal is showing anything, it is that the White House has a bizarre notion of accountability in the federal government. President Obama's former senior adviser, David Axelrod, told MSNBC recently that his guy was off the hook on the IRS scandal because "part of being President is there's so much beneath you that you can't know because the government is so vast." |
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Gabrielle Reece "My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life." After suggesting on national television in mid-April that women should be submissive to their husbands, Ms. Reece, 43, immediately felt the backlash. Legions of social-media commentators wondered everything from how many years she had set back the women's movement to how "being a doormat is a sign of strength." It all started with a line in her book about how she behaves in her marriage to surfer Laird Hamilton: "To be truly feminine means being soft, receptive, and—look out, here it comes—submissive." |
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George F. Will: Obama’s lawlessness |
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Obama’s lawlessness George F. Will His unconstitutional approach to the National Labor Relations Board. |
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Gavin Newsom: Homophobia and bigotry win out in US immigration reform debate |
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Robert Redford on US: 'Things have got lost' |
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Redford on US: 'Things have got lost' The writer-director uses Cannes press conference to say that the US has lost its way since the second world war, and that rampant development must be controlled "Certain things have got lost," said Redford. "Our belief system had holes punched in it by scandals that occurred, whether it was Watergate, the quiz show scandal, or Iran-Contra; it's still going on…Beneath all the propaganda is a big grey area, another America that doesn't get any attention; I decided to make that the subject of my films." |
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Joe Namath says NY Jets wasted a draft pick on quarterback Geno Smith |
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Benghazi turns out to be a big deal, and not for just Republicans |
Benghazi turns out to be a big deal, and not for just Republicans By Jennifer Rubin Give the public some credit. With most of the media ignoring Benghazi until recently and non-stop spin from the administration and its liberal enablers disparaging those seeking answers, the voters have figured out that it really does matter what happened and if our leaders lied to them. |
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Does Grief Counseling Cause More Harm Than Good? |
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Does Grief Counseling Cause More Harm Than Good? Dozens died in the tornado that barreled through Moore, Oklahoma. For those who lost loved ones, the grief is unimaginable. The mental health professionals in Moore are there to provide the bereaved with much-needed comfort, but also to encourage them to talk about what they experienced. But is talking about loss always therapeutic? |
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Electric Cars Priced at Nearly $0 |
Bronson Beisel got an extra subsidy from Georgia, cutting the cost. Electric Cars Priced at Nearly $0 A new round of discount leases on plug-in cars, combined with federal, state and local electric-vehicle incentives, could make a battery-electric car an economical way to get around. |
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Soldier 'beheaded' in London terror attack |
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Soldier 'beheaded' in Woolwich terror attack 
Two suspected terrorists in hospital after being shot by armed police at scene of vicious attack. |
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One dead in suspected terror attack in London |
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One dead in suspected terror attack in London Dramatic footage emerges of man addressing camera with bloody hands following attack Brandishing a cleaver and a knife, and with the body of the victim lying yards away, the man said: "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." |
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If Cable Is Dying, Why Is It Still Making So Much Money? |
If Cable Is Dying, Why Is It Still Making So Much Money? Derek Thompson The story behind one of the best business models in the country But the cable companies aren't exclusively in the business of selling TV. They're really in the business of communications infrastructure, which is TV, phone, and Internet. The Internet business in particular has done very well for them. Since cable video subs peaked in the late 1990s, the industry has added 45 million high-speed Internet customers. |
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Dan Brown talks about Inferno |
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A Dilemma in the Breast-Cancer Hunt |
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A Dilemma in the Breast-Cancer Hunt Doctors are divided about how best to scan "dense" breasts. A look at the options. |
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Man killed in FBI interview is said to implicate Tsarnaev |
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Before being shot and killed during an interview in Orlando, Ibragim Todashev implicated himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a triple homicide in Mass. two years ago, officials say. |
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Video Gaming: the future of foreign language education |
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When Video Gaming Replaces the Classroom Digits From Asia: In China, the future of foreign language education may be online. About 1,000 primary school children in China's coastal area of Fujian are paying to play online games and learn English. WSJ's Eva Tam takes us to 3-D English Adventureland. |
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Infidelity in the Digital Age |
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Infidelity in the Digital Age Once upon a time infidelity was pretty easy to identify. However, in today’s world of social media, apps, sexting, and the like, the definition of cheating is somewhat murky. That said, I offer here a simple, straightforward definition of sexual infidelity, developed through more than two decades of work with betrayed spouses and their ultimately remorseful mates. |
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Obama’s War on Journalism: ‘An Unconstitutional Act’ |
Obama’s War on Journalism: ‘An Unconstitutional Act’ by Nick Gillespie Because they tend to share his broad outlook on politics, too many journalists for too long have been in the tank for Obama. The press-punishing, speech-chilling, and unabashedly overreaching actions by the Obama administration against the Associated Press and Fox News Channel’s James Rosen lay bare the essential dynamic between any president and a press that is always more prone to being lapdogs than watchdogs: The president feeds or punishes them as he sees fit, while chanting a bogus rosary about “national security.” |
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A Bell Tolls at Morehouse |
The first black President’s commencement speech gave cause for both celebration and alarm… |
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Senate Committee Immigration Bill Excludes Gay Couples |
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The Recipe for Success in Any Job |
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The Recipe for Success in Any Job Here are the ingredients for workplace success: Equal parts of competence, conscientiousness, and commitment, with a dash of positive politics. Find out how to combine these to create a successful work career. |
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Immigration bill backers say not all back-taxes will be paid |
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Immigration bill backers say not all back-taxes will be paid By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times The Senate immigration bill’s authors acknowledged Tuesday that their legislation does not require illegal immigrants to pay all back taxes, saying it would be too difficult to make them ante up everything they might owe. |
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Ibragim Todashev killed by FBI in Orlando |
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An FBI agent in Orlando shot and killed a man who was questioned in connection with the Boston marathon bombings. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel) Friend: Orlando man killed by FBI agent was questioned in Boston bombings An Orlando man who was shot and killed by an agent with the FBI early this morning was friends with the Boston bombings suspects, according to a friend of the victim. Todashev, who is from Chechnya, "flipped out" during an interview Tuesday night and an agent was forced to shoot him, the FBI said, according to WESH. |
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How 'The Heatles' Make Their Music |
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How 'The Heatles' Make Their Music Underappreciated is the significant retooling that Miami underwent after assembling the powerful trinity of LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade, a sometimes painful process that fashioned the Heat into the offensive wrecking crew it is today. |
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Obama’s flagrant assault on liberty |
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Obama’s flagrant assault on liberty Dana Milbank The White House investigates reporters for doing their job. "The Rosen affair is as flagrant an assault on civil liberties as anything done by George W. Bush’s administration, and it uses technology to silence critics in a way Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of." |
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Officer Involved in Shooting of Man Linked to Tsarnaev |
Officer Involved in Shooting of Man Linked to Tsarnaev By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT A law enforcement official in Orlando, Fla., was involved in the fatal shooting of a man whom the F.B.I. interviewed about his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the deceased Boston bombing suspect. In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, the F.B.I. has sought to speak with people who knew Mr. Tsarnaev and his brother, Dzhokhar, in an effort to learn how they were radicalized. |
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How America became a third world country |
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How America became a third world country Mattea Kramer and Jo Comerford for TomDispatch The politicians who tweeted while America burned are dismantling our society piece by piece with budget cuts.
Without money for disaster relief or sound infrastructure, the authors predict frequent, widespread problems, like rolling blackouts and untended roads and bridges. |
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What 'Stop the Leaks' Hardliners Won't Ever Win |
What 'Stop the Leaks' Hardliners Won't Ever Win Conor Friedersdorf If national security journalists are neutered, secrets will flow to transparency activists and the government will have even less control. Many journalists are outraged that James Rosen, a Fox News correspondent, stands accused of criminal activity (though he is not being prosecuted) for soliciting classified information from government sources, something all national security reporters do. But there hasn't been the same outpouring of support for Julian Assange of Wikileaks, who has long been investigated for the same behavior: allegedly soliciting classified material from Bradley Manning, his source. |
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Obama’s clean-up-your-act message for blacks is getting old, critics say |
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Obama’s clean-up-your-act message for blacks is getting old, critics say Vanessa Williams Even some supporters say the president needs to stop lecturing predominantly black audience. During the speech, Obama admonished black men to take care of their families and their communities and told the graduates that despite the lingering legacies of slavery and discrimination, “we’ve got no time for excuses.” Obama also used the occasion to talk about his own life, touching on the fact that he was raised by a single mother and that growing up he sometimes blamed some of his bad choices on “the world trying to keep a black man down.” |
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Can You Blame Moore on Global Warming? |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 20 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 30 |
20 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 30 By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 12. When choosing someone to date, compassion is better than passion. I’m not saying she shouldn’t be passionate. That’s a given. But look for signs that she shows genuine compassion toward others. That will keep you interested in her a lot longer. |
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If the President doesn't run the government, then who does?
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Gabrielle Reece
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George F. Will: Obama’s lawlessness
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Gavin Newsom: Homophobia and bigotry win out in US immigration reform debate
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Robert Redford on US: 'Things have got lost'
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Joe Namath says NY Jets wasted a draft pick on quarterback Geno Smith
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Benghazi turns out to be a big deal, and not for just Republicans
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Does Grief Counseling Cause More Harm Than Good?
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Electric Cars Priced at Nearly $0
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Soldier 'beheaded' in London terror attack
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One dead in suspected terror attack in London
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If Cable Is Dying, Why Is It Still Making So Much Money?
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Dan Brown talks about Inferno
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A Dilemma in the Breast-Cancer Hunt
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Man killed in FBI interview is said to implicate Tsarnaev
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Video Gaming: the future of foreign language education
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Infidelity in the Digital Age
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Obama’s War on Journalism: ‘An Unconstitutional Act’
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A Bell Tolls at Morehouse
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Senate Committee Immigration Bill Excludes Gay Couples
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The Recipe for Success in Any Job
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Immigration bill backers say not all back-taxes will be paid
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Ibragim Todashev killed by FBI in Orlando
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How 'The Heatles' Make Their Music
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Obama’s flagrant assault on liberty
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Officer Involved in Shooting of Man Linked to Tsarnaev
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How America became a third world country
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What 'Stop the Leaks' Hardliners Won't Ever Win
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Obama’s clean-up-your-act message for blacks is getting old, critics say
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Can You Blame Moore on Global Warming?
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: 20 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 30
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How Yahoo Will Wring $1.1B Out of Tumblr
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Apple 'took golden goose to Ireland.
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Can Practice Alone Create Mastery?
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FBI agents killed in training exercise were on elite hostage rescue team
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No Easy Choices on Breast Reconstruction
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The US Murder Rate Is on Track to Be Lowest in a Century
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Caregiving: What Harm Can it Do?
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What Brought Women to the Office?
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Florida man kills 18' 8" Python
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Is Sex a Non-Moral Issue Like Eating?
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Can You Catch Up on Lost Sleep?
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Hazards of the Buzzy Startup
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Are Media Moms Bad For Our Health?
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Hillary's 'Scapegoat' Speaks Out
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Iran policy reaches day of reckoning
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Et Tu, Eugene?
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Video: Base jumper survives 1000ft fall
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Gawker launches 'Crackstarter' fund
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Why America Has the Worst Tornados on Earth
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Dems bet heavily on GOP overreach
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Why Rational People Buy Into Conspiracy Theories
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How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Press
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Two Prostitutes Ready to POUND Apple
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Predicting the IQ of Future People
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Ray Manzarek, founding member of The Doors, dies aged 74
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Why a BlackBerry Is Better Than an iPhone
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Chinese hackers gained access o surveillance data from Google
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Can You Really Buy 'Cool'?
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Why China's Property Prices Keep Rising
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Why Aren't More Wives Outearning Their Husbands?
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E.J. Dionne: Democracy in trouble
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Poverty Flees to the Suburbs
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Carney: Senior aides knew about IRS investigation
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Can cognitive differences in older adults be explained by genetics?
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Vitamin B could stave off Alzheimers
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Michael Wolff: Yahoo buying Tumblr is not a turnaround story
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Apple to face Senate grilling over tax
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John McAfee's Belize home burns to the ground
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Paul Begala: Stop Calling Obama Aloof!
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What States Have the Highest SAT Scores?
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Boston bombing and Immigration Bill
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Why the IRS Flap Matters Most for Obama
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Tumblr Founder Says Site Will Keep Independence
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Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
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Weekend GOP Almost-Impeachment Update
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Guidelines for Young People Dating Via the Internet
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How Obama Handles Crisis
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How Inclusion Benefits Businesses
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'Overspending Has Become a Modern Form of Mating Deception'
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Facebook: What Really Happened in the Biggest IPO Flop Ever
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The Flaw in Many Humanitarian Arguments for War
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Some Second Careers Are a Leap of Faith
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Speed limit on the entire autobahn?
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Wells Dry, Fertile Plains Turn to Dust
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Jordan is better than Kobe, but LeBron is another matter
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"Republican wolves are out for Obama"
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Four key Hillary Clinton staffers from 2008 unlikely to sign on for 2016 bid
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Banks slow to pay out mortgage relief funds
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Insanity: Rise of the Supercharged Workout
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Matt Barkley has "shot" to be Eagles' starting QB
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Barbra Streisand makes it simple for us....
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Criminal Minds
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Jolie decision highlights genetics row
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Why IRS investigation is already Obama's Watergate – and Benghazi, too
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Does Prozac help artists be creative?
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The prospect of al-Qaeda getting chemical weapons is drawing closer
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Is Marriage a Status Symbol or a Rebuke to Uppity Women?
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President faces a gulf between two Americas
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How to improve female fertility: avoid selfish men
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