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Scarred U.S. struggling to maintain foothold in Mideast
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...
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Dear Tiny Desk Miss You
Tiny Desk , I don't know if you remember me, but I used to work maybe 20 feet from you. Before that, I worked about 10 feet from you, but people used to come stand behind me and breathe their miscellaneous lunch smells on my neck while you were entertaining guests, so I moved. When I saw our new building, it was so open that I assumed I would still be able to hear everything, even though ...
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Whos The Best Drinker Dogs Cats Or Pigeons
It's a dog drinking water. It's also the answer to a riddle. When you and I take a drink, we can lift a glass, hold it to our mouth, tilt and use gravity to pour the water in. Dogs can't do that. In a pinch, we can kneel down, put our mouth to the surface and suck water up (or, to be polite, use a straw). Dogs can't do that either. They don't have sucking ability. Yet ...
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Plimpton A Fond Look At A Man Of Letters
With: George Plimpton, Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Graydon Carter, James Lipton, Hugh Hefner, Robert Kennedy Jr., Gay Talese If ever there was a man who made a virtue out of failure, it was George Plimpton. He played quarterback with the Detroit Lions without even knowing where to put his hands to take the snap. He had his nose bloodied by knockout king Archie Moore. He sweated through ...
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Breakin The Rules 20 General Principles Suspended In Fast And Furious 6
. 1. Newton's Laws Of Motion 2. The Reluctance Of Brilliant Criminal Masterminds To Freely Confess 3. The Inability Of Two Things To Coexist In The Same Physical Space 4. The Integrity Of Vending Machines 5. Gravity 6. Gina Carano's Ability To Snap Most Of These People Like Twigs Pretty Quickly, If We're Being Honest 7. The Hardness Of Cars, Which Are Actually Kind Of ...
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Pitbull Gets Epic You Constantly Have To Defend Your Success
. Armando Christian Perez -- better known as Pitbull or Mr. Worldwide -- has sold five million albums and had No. 1 hits in more than 15 countries. He's worked with artists like Usher, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez. Now, he brings the party to the big screen in the new animated feature ...
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Douglas Damon Illuminate HBOs Candelabra
- when you just consider the concept of the TV movie and its casting -- this new HBO Films production raises all sorts of questions: How much will be based on verifiable fact, and how much will be fictionalized? On an anything-goes premium-cable network such as HBO, how graphic will the sex scenes be? And the most important questions involve the drama's two leading men, playing an ...
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IRS questions political groups
Republican strategist Karl Rove walks the floor of the 2012 Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. (Glen Stubbe / Minneapolis Star Tribune) Isn't it the responsibility of the IRS to protect taxpayers by denying 501(c)(4) tax-exempt status to partisan groups? I'm neither Republican nor a Democrat, but it seems to me that many conservative groups are blatantly ...
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Sexual assault in the military
If Congress is serious about curbing rape in the military, it should remove all such cases from the military-justice system and place them in the civilian criminal court system ...
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Catholic health-care systems in state hospitals
While everyone has been fearing Obamacare, what the people in Washington should fear is "popecare," as more and more of our local and regional hospitals are being turned over to the Catholic Church ...
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Punchlines Prom season for Obama
Time magazine obtained photos of President Obama in 1979. One comedian questions what that weed is around his neck. Take a look at our favorite jokes, then vote for your own at ...
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Where are the STEM jobs
Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on at least one thing: that the United States is facing a STEM (science, technology engineering and math) crisis. In his most ...
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What do you want to hear from the Seattle Mayor candidates
Before Seattle City Council member Tim Burgess suddenly dropped out of the Mayor’s race, he mostly stuck to his core issues of Seattle Police reforms, better public schools and road maintenance. He led the field in fundraising, but he fared badly in several recent endorsements, including the King County Young Democrats and the 46th Legislative District Democrats. The most ...
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Legislature considers tougher DUI laws
Just say yes to tougher DUI laws ," NWThursday, May 16]? A person convicted of a DUI can be sentenced to have a Breathalyzer in their car, but why not make it easier for everyone? Is the law meant to protect the innocent or to make money for the state from tickets? People stop for a drink after work and often do not know when they are over the limit. That is not an excuse, but they would ...
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Graham Greenie flies into Senate race
"NextGen, working with our local partners, will be seeking to be a politically disruptive force between now and Election Day." -- A memo on billionaire greenie Tom Steyer's plans for the Markey/Gomez senate ...
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Newspaper unfair to Minneapolis police
Whenever interactions between police and citizens result in death or serious injuries, in what is commonly called a "critical incident," the public needs to know what happened and whether their police officers acted properly in these tragic circumstances. Clearly, the media plays an important role in gathering and disseminating the facts so that the public can make its determination. ...
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Proposed lower alcohol limit for drivers too severe
The earlier progress came after states lowered the blood alcohol concentration for driving under the influence from 0.10 to 0.08, raised the drinking age and adopted a "zero tolerance" rule for drivers under age 21. With the most potent changes already in place, public safety improvements have gotten a bit harder to come ...
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Barack ‘prosecutes’ his war
President Obama Mind you, he said all this - complete with references to civil rights - at a time when the IRS has grossly violated the rights of conservatives and his Justice Department has suggested a Fox News reporter is a criminal. To cap it off, he closed with a line he ripped off from Bush’s surge speech, a reference to how victory in this war will not take the form of a ...
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The J-joke’s on us
We agree with Andrew Cuomo.Earlier this week he told reporters that the state ethics commission that investigated the gropings of Vito Lopez but not the coverup by Shelly Silver was "the best" he could get through the state Legislature. And he’s right. It’s just not what he told us at the time. On that August day in 2011 when he signed the bill into law, there was no hint ...
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Clothing the world shouldn’t be a death sentence
The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Monday, May 20:In Third World countries, workers often toil for pennies a day in backbreaking, life-threatening sweatshop jobs that are the margin between feeding a family and starvation.That imagery represents an uncomfortable truth about capitalism and global trade: Products marketed by mass retailers in Dallas, New York or London ...
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Are White House scandals a Big Government scandal
BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHISScripps Howard News Service05-23-13By BEN BOYCHUK and JOEL MATHISCongress this week delved deeper into claims that the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeted conservative and religious nonprofit groups for extraordinary scrutiny in 2009 and 2010, and kept mum about the until after the 2012 election.Meantime, the Washington Post reported that the Justice ...
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Letters Bennett is right
What a breath of fresh air to read former Sen. Bob Bennett's article regarding John Swallow — something that really makes sense instead of the wild rhetoric to which we are exposed on a daily basis ("Swallow needs administrative leave," May 20). Regardless of whether Swallow is falsely accused or blatantly guilty, Bennett's suggestion that Swallow be placed on the ...
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White House press corps has been turned into potted plants
On days when the president is coming, the White House press room, the East Room and even occasionally the Rose Garden are ornamented with dozens of objects that perform the decorative and utilitarian purpose of potted ...
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Letters Let organizations decide
Rich McKeown, spokesman for Count My Vote (CMV) said, "We just think we can do better" (GOP delegates reject changes to nominating system," May 18). A few people believe their ideas on how to improve the process private organizations use to select their representatives. Then when the groups don't agree, these ideas should be imposed on them by force of law. If my friends and ...
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Letters Murdock Canal trail
Fifteen years ago while serving as mayor of Highland, I sat in meetings with other elected officials where we discussed the possibilities of a trail along the Murdock ...
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