February 2012
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Anthony Shadid, 1968-2012 →
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megangreenwell:
Shortly after David Hoffman, then the foreign editor of The Washington Post, overcame all of his better judgement and decided to send my 23-year-old intern self to Baghdad, he told me to go talk to Anthony Shadid, who was in Washington on book leave. It’s safe to say this prospect terrified me more than the actual trip to Iraq.
GOOD managing editor Megan Greenwell...
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“We need to change society’s views of teaching... →
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Reuters, NBC, Fox, CBS Renting Tel Aviv Rooftops... →
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Interesting link from Globes, Israel’s main business program. News outlets such as Reuters have been renting rooftops in Tel Aviv; television news producers have also been making arrangements for Iran-Israel war coverage. Article’s Hebrew-only, but Google Translate gives the gist. Translation: The press is bullish on Middle Eastern war :(.
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January 2012
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If they’d stopped the debate then and there, Romney would have been awarded a...
– The New Yorker on whether Mitt Romney showed his tough side in last night’s debate. Maybe he can push back.
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Not that Martin Henderson
This Martin Henderson is the man Peter Dinklage mentioned at the end of his acceptance speech at tonight’s Golden Globes (see video).
A dwarf claims he was partially paralyzed on his birthday when a stranger lifted and heaved him onto the hard ground outside an English pub, according toThe Telegraph.
Martin Henderson, the victim, blames English rugby players...
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Why i love Margaret Cho →
I grew up hard and am still hard and I don’t care. I did not choose this face or this body and I have learned to live with it and love it and celebrate it and adorn it with tremendous drawings from the greatest artists in the world and I feel good and powerful like a nation that has never been free and now after many hard won victories is finally fucking free. I am beautiful and I am finally...
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Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory →
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ramou:
I listened to this on the way back to Boston from WMass tonight and was really unsure about what to do with myself after Act One and was afraid that I wouldn’t get my answers and was nervous that I was on the road and all I wanted to do was go on a Google binge about Apple and Apple factories and Steve Jobs and labor laws. And then it was so reassuring when Ira...
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The Daughter of the Disappeared →
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The man 27-year-old Victoria Donda believed to be her father shot himself after being revealed as a former member of an Argentinean death squad. Immediately after, a human rights group came to her with information on her birth parents: murdered political prisoners.
Mei-Ling Hopgood | Marie Claire | Jun 2011
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December 2011
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