Tag: news essentials
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February 22, 2007 07:46 PM EST --
This week, natural and specialty foods retailer Whole Foods acquired smaller chain Wild Oats for a questionably wise offer of over half a billion dollars. Whole Foods, which started as a hipster/hippie . . .
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April 20, 2007 01:19 PM EDT --
Liviu Librescu was only a kid when his family was deported from his native Romania to a labor camp in Transnistria, so he was only 78 years old -- young for a holocaust survivor -- when he died at Virginia . . .
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June 17, 2007 02:44 PM EDT --
Liberal sources have been circulating a google video of Bush at the G8 apparently drinking a beer. Bush, a recovering alcoholic who is a teetotaler, says he has not taken a drink since he was 40. . . .
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July 30, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
As we read that Amnesty International and the Catholic Church are feuding over the issue of supporting abortions for women subject to rape and incest, a friend of mine in Oregon sent out this quote and . . .
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September 15, 2008 09:13 PM EDT --
When Enron melted down, many attributed it to dishonesty, but I and many others saw it as the inevitable consequence of a financial and accounting system that was still rooted in the tangibles of an industrial . . .
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March 05, 2008 01:44 PM EST --
DailyKOS published an article that's getting a little play today, alleging that the Clinton campaign published an attack ad that intentionally colorized Obama's skin to darker, reminiscent . . .
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October 01, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
This is a response to the comment stream on Boing-Boing to my " Chickens Come Home to Roost " post last published on Iconoclasm.
@#19 My point is that Enron was able to be a wolf in sheep's . . .
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March 06, 2007 12:28 PM EST --
Sometimes it's worth revisiting our analyses of the past. Today, Scooter Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice surrounding the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador . . .
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July 03, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Bush administration proved today that it is firm in the assertion of the privileges of the Imperial presidency. While signing statements have castrated the institution of legislation in this . . .
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September 04, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
For me, the drain started with two boilerplate email invites I got from CC Chapman, a co-conspirator in social media. CC often has his finger on cool new things online, so I immediately clicked . . .
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October 20, 2007 04:47 PM EDT --
Yesterday at Carnegie Hall, J.K. Rowling revealed that Albus Dumbledore, beloved headmaster of Hogwarts School in the Harry Potter books, is gay.
Entertainment Weekly reports :
Responding to . . .
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April 30, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
This week, the Turkish election crisis went to streets as at least 700,000 Turks supported their secular principles of Turkish rule for about a century.
In a turn around from western assumptions, the . . .
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June 28, 2007 03:17 PM EDT --
An article in Salon this week examines the gay community in MMOs, including the issue of gay marriage in virtual gaming space in Second Life, Lord of the Rings Online, WOW and other games.
My name is . . .
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October 24, 2007 06:41 AM EDT --
In the area around San Diego, an area about twice the size of the city of New Orleans has burned since Sunday . But folks there -- even the over 20,000 people evacuated to Qualcomm Stadium -- are . . .
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October 25, 2007 02:56 AM EDT --
I don't know if you saw CSI:NY last night , but it was a total travesty of information law. The episode portrayed a series of Second Life players involved in a series of assassinations, which CBS . . .
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January 04, 2008 12:49 PM EST --
Last night, Barack Obama claimed his victory in the Iowa caucuses, not for himself, but for the people. For the people who supported him, and for the people (Democrat, Independent, Republican, and third . . .
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March 02, 2008 01:14 AM EST --
Do we really have to choose just one reason that the population of US prisons and jails has increased over 50% in the last four years, from 1.47 million in 2003 , to 2.3 million in 2007 ?
Pew . . .
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October 19, 2007 04:25 PM EDT --
Have you read an article on the Village Voice web site since 1/1/2004? Then the Feds may be investigating you. Two executives of Village Voice Media have been arrested for violating grand . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:15 AM EDT --
Yesterday on On Point (produced at my own favorite local NPR station, WBUR) an economist was discussing how even though entry level programming jobs would be lost in a global economy, we'd be alright . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
It's always a little tricky to report on a news event you've just participated in, but Amnesty International's Irrepressible campaign against Internet censorship just had a conference today . . .
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