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Feb.05.2011
Recently, I helped my son move into a new place. It was one of those things where he's moving to a bigger house and needs stuff to fill it up, and logistics dictated that we rent a vehicle here in Napa. The guy behind the counter appeared to be of Indian or Pakistani descent. At least he had a...
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Jan.30.2011
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/dueling-rumsfelds-novel-to-appear-on-same-day-as-memoir/
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Jan.29.2011
Once again, in terms of political theater, President Barack Obama has managed to flummox both critics and angels alike. Reviews of his State of the Union address have been more mixed than a Kansas Cuisinart stuck in a tornado on puree. Notwithstanding the ritualistic 79 applause breaks by his...
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Jan.27.2011
“I do think that fiction can provide the distance that you sometimes need to look at things that are really hard to look at,” says Martin. “When you think about the success of The Hurt Locker versus the many documentaries that were made about Iraq, it’s a good [example] of how sometimes you need...
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Jan.26.2011
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that, when it comes to the business of higher education, America remains the country to beat. "We are home to the world's best colleges and universities," he said, "where more students come to study than any other...
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Jan.17.2011
Perhaps it's no great surprise that Glenn Beck would distort Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message, as he did when he held a rally for mostly white reactionaries on the 47th anniversary of King's "I Have a Dream" speech in August, all the while suggesting that the group was "...
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Dec.26.2010
Wishing you all a Very Happy Merry. And no, I'm not falling into that trap. You go out and dance to the beat of whichever winter festival you want to celebrate. Christmas. Hanukah, Kwanza, Saturnalia, Solstice, noon Tuesday, 420, a December date equal to the square root of the number 625....
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Dec.17.2010
Believe it or not, an entire decade has passed since the turn of the millennium. One hundred twenty months. One tenth of a century. More than 3,600 days.
How did that happen? It's harder to comprehend than a faded Kazakhstani street sign tagged by Mongolian graffiti.
As we are painfully aware,...
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Dec.09.2010
If anyone still thinks this Millennial generation is, as the media so often puts it, a bunch of spoiled slackers, there's "Think 2040" standing a clear rebuke.
Think 2040 is the vision that this generation has for the future. Organized by Roosevelt's Campus Network--the nation's...
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Dec.09.2010
If anyone still thinks this Millennial generation is, as the media so often puts it, a bunch of spoiled slackers, there's "Think 2040" standing a clear rebuke.
Think 2040 is the vision that this generation has for the future. Organized by Roosevelt's Campus Network--the nation's...
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