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Donald Barthelme's Syllabus: I was given secondhand a list of eighty-one books, the recommendations of Donald Barthelme to his students. Barthelme's only guidance ... was to attack the books "in...

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An eccentric Chinese entrepreneur built the world's second largest shopping mall in a rural area with no airport and no freeway. Today, that mall stands almost completely empty. An interview...

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Duke Nukem Forever is officialy dead, here's why "when development on Duke Nukem Forever started, most computers were still using Windows 95, Pixar had made only one movie — Toy...

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As the postmortems pour in I want to focus on the story behind the story: how new media, grassroots activists, and citizen journalists worked together in inspired ways to get...

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At 11:45 I was on my way walking in the street. I heard the first rocket, the second and the third, many quick attacks, one after one, at this moment...

Hi-Fi Holiday At 11:45 I was on my way walking in the street. I heard the first rocket, the second and the third, many quick attacks, one after one, at this moment... tag:www.blogs.com,2009:/news-politics//6.4057446 2009-12-22T14:53:03Z 2009-12-22T15:50:10Z

"Think of it - a piece knitted before the turn of the last century, designed by a close group of family/friends living in an isolated area, preserved in a photograph...

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The Senate moved closer to passing health care reform Tuesday as Democrats revised an $871 billion bill and voted to end debate on the measure....

Hi-Fi Holiday The Senate moved closer to passing health care reform Tuesday as Democrats revised an $871 billion bill and voted to end debate on the measure.... tag:www.blogs.com,2009:/news-politics//6.4057212 2009-12-22T14:46:00Z 2009-12-22T15:26:47Z

Early Saturday morning, the Senate passed an amendment that marks the first, critical step toward protecting all Americans from being forced into arbitration rather than...

Hi-Fi Holiday Early Saturday morning, the Senate passed an amendment that marks the first, critical step toward protecting all Americans from being forced into arbitration rather than... tag:www.blogs.com,2009:/news-politics//6.4057216 2009-12-22T14:43:03Z 2009-12-22T15:26:47Z

Even in the 1920s, the economy had quite an effect on the holidays, starting with changes for the president and his family. In 1928 Herbert...

Hi-Fi Holiday Even in the 1920s, the economy had quite an effect on the holidays, starting with changes for the president and his family. In 1928 Herbert... tag:www.blogs.com,2009:/news-politics//6.4057208 2009-12-22T14:41:26Z 2009-12-22T15:26:46Z

By Paul Kiel, ProPublica Since last spring, when President Barack Obama announced his administration’s plan to prevent foreclosures, there’s been a crush of homeowners seeking...

Hi-Fi Holiday By Paul Kiel, ProPublica Since last spring, when President Barack Obama announced his administration’s plan to prevent foreclosures, there’s been a crush of homeowners seeking... tag:www.blogs.com,2009:/news-politics//6.4057370 2009-12-22T14:40:57Z 2009-12-22T15:34:00Z

In a television interview with ABC News broadcast on Monday night, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rejected charges that a memo published last week by a British newspaper proves that Iran...

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By: Meir Javedanfar The death of Grand Ayatollah Hosein Ali Montazeri was good news for Iran's supreme leader, Seyyed Ali Khamenei. With his passing, one...

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It might seem futile to try to select just two quotes from the previous decade and single them out as bookends to illustrate how the...

Hi-Fi Holiday It might seem futile to try to select just two quotes from the previous decade and single them out as bookends to illustrate how the... tag:www.blogs.com,2009:/news-politics//6.4057220 2009-12-22T14:23:21Z 2009-12-22T15:26:47Z

Since 1989, Romania has remarkably become a dynamic, if flawed, democracy, an economy which is increasingly prosperous and competitive in the 21st century, a member of the EU, and an...

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When the United States, China, Brazil, India and South Africa struck an agreement in the United Nations' climate change summit in Copenhagen, many other countries were unhappy with the outcome....

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