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JamesMarcus
James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and five translations from the Italian (the most recent being Dino: The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis and Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, the Nation, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He also written about jazz, pop, and classical music for Salon, The Oregonian, and WBUR Online Arts. He blogs at www.housemirth.blogspot.com.
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Newsquake: Can we not govern ourselves?
News – In May 1976, South African activist Steve Biko testified at the trial of nine of his colleagues, who were being charged with violating apartheid laws. At one point, the defense sought to clarify the origin of Biko's "Black Consciousness" movement, thinking this might help the accused. Like the American Black Power movement, Black Consciousness had been designed to combat demoralizing negative stereotypes.
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Voted for on July 17, 2007 10:18am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 53 votes / 7 sinks
Wal-Mart Gets Religious - Toys, That Is
News – Early next month, 425 Wal-Mart stores nationwide will begin carrying faith-based toys from One2believe that target parents who would rather that their kids play with a Samson action figure than a Spider-Man action figure.
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Voted for on July 17, 2007 10:18am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 20 votes / No sinks
Poison threat from Ukraine train
News – Several Ukrainian villages are at risk from a giant poisonous cloud that formed after a train carrying a toxic chemical caught fire and derailed. The cloud covers an area of 56 square miles above some 14 villages near the town of Lviv.
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Voted for on July 17, 2007 09:43am
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Turkish poll candidate shot dead
News – An independent candidate has been shot dead in Istanbul ahead of the 22 July general election in Turkey. Tuncay Seyranlioglu's car was hit with gunfire on a highway as it was taking him away from a television studio, the Anatolia news agency says.
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Voted for on July 17, 2007 09:36am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 49 votes / 4 sinks
Latest Harry Potter Book Leaked!
Books – A photographed version of Harry Potter and the Deadly Hollow has been found on a file-sharing website! though this isn't the complete version it seems like the 70% of the book is out there and you can tell how the story will end through it!Byron Ng who first found this version says...
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Voted for on July 17, 2007 09:17am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 19 votes / No sinks
News Corp. Reaches Tentative Agreement to Buy Dow Jones
News – News Corp. reached a tentative agreement for the purchase of Dow Jones & Co. at its original $5 billion offer price. The deal will be put to the full Dow Jones board tomorrow evening for its approval, said people familiar with the situation.
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Voted for on July 17, 2007 09:14am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 99 votes / 3 sinks
L.A. Archdiocese to Pay $600M to Victims
Religion – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will settle its clergy abuse cases for at least $600 million, by far the largest payout in the church's sexual abuse scandal.
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Voted for on July 16, 2007 02:24pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 102 votes / 2 sinks
It's Official: McCain's Press Staff Resigns
Politics – Sen. John McCain's top three press aides resigned this morning, Republicans close to the campaign said and one of those aides confirmed. The campaign's research director and two other press staffers also stepped down.
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Voted for on July 16, 2007 02:24pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 51 votes / No sinks
Strong quake rocks Japan, nuclear plant
News – A strong earthquake struck northwestern Japan on Monday, causing a fire and minor radioactive water leak at one of the world's most powerful nuclear power plants and turning buildings into piles of lumber. At least seven people were killed and hundreds injured.
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Voted for on July 16, 2007 02:24pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 68 votes / 3 sinks
UK expels Russia diplomats in escalation of spy row
News – Britain announced on Monday the expulsion of four Russian diplomats to protest against Moscow's refusal to extradite a suspect over the murder of ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko, the first such step in over a decade.
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Voted for on July 16, 2007 02:11pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 34 votes / No sinks
Moliere: The Play's The Thing
Movies – In making "Moliere," which opens in the U.S. on July 25, Laurent Tirard has taken at least a leaf or two from John Madden's "Shakespeare In Love." There are the same urban vistas (dirt, cobblestones, a sleeping drunk) and the familiar tropes of artistic inspiration--which is to say, much whittling and chewing of the quill.
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Voted for on July 16, 2007 12:50pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 13 votes / No sinks
7 Gored at Running of the Bulls in Spain
News – Charging bulls gored seven people and seriously injured several others Thursday as this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona served up its longest and most dangerous run yet.
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Voted for on July 12, 2007 10:49am
This story has mostly positive ratings. 82 votes / 12 sinks
The United Nations Vs. Megadeth
Music – There's an interesting (or, depending on your perspective, idiotic) fight underway between Mark Goldberg, a Washington, D.C.-based political reporter, and Dave Mustaine, the lead singer of Megadeth. The spat started in June 2006, after Mustaine criticized the United Nations in Billboard.
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This story has mostly positive ratings. 163 votes / 8 sinks
Lady Bird Johnson dies at 94
News – Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, a family spokeswoman said. She was 94.
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Voted for on July 11, 2007 11:16pm
This story has mostly positive ratings. 71 votes / 4 sinks
Queen star finishes PhD thesis after 30 years
News – After more than 30 years as a member of one of the world's most successful bands, Queen guitarist Brian May has finally finished his PhD thesis which he began as a student in the 1970s. May, 59, earned a degree in physics but abandoned work towards his doctorate when Queen took off.
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