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• Guest Post at Normblog

  
  the sad red earth — Authority: 122
  Today I have a guest post at Normblog :  a contribution to the long-running Writer’s Choice series for which the contributor discusses a book that has been important to him. My post is on Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus . The semi-eponymous Normblog is the blog of Norman Geras, Professor Emeritus of ...
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• Illinois 2010 Elections–Trail Mix: Evanston Democrats Endorse “Whip-Smart, Do-Gooder Lawyer” David Hoffman; Cuba Backs Andy McKenna; Preckwinkle, Spyropoulos, Connor, Schroeder, Dunkin, Harris, Fritchey, Mullen, Rutherford, Steans, McAuliffe, Moffitt, Sav

  
  THE iLLINOIS OBSERVER — Authority: 477
  David Hoffman (Chicago, IL) — December 14, 2009 . From the Illinois 2010 candidate and cow-pie trail mix… … The Democratic Party of Evanston on Sunday threw its support to U.S. Senate hopeful David Hoffman , Chicago’s former Inspector General. “Evanston Democrats last night endorsed a whip-smart ...
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• Rising from the Ashes

  
  Simple Pleasures part 4 — Authority: 106
  If I wanted to boost the SEO for Simple Pleasures part 4 I’d be writing this evening about Jim Morrison, The Snowman, lonelygirl15, Dylan Thomas, Lara Croft and Albert Camus, but I’ve got other stuff in mind, first and foremost The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, London N2. I’m just back from there where we ...
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• Friday finds

  
  STEVENHARTSITE — Authority: 133
  The Top 29 chalkboard gags from The Simpsons , thoughtfully compiled with images. Funny stuff, but what happened to “It’s ‘potato,’ not ‘potatoe,’” the show’s tribute to the administration that early on provided it with so much material . Lance Mannion reads Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel and ...
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• Amanda Knox’s Strange Behavior Worked Against Her

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Ranjan BhaduriDec.08, (THAINDIAN NEWS) The sensational murder trial of Amanda Knox created much speculation and buzz in media for quite some time. The Student was accused of plotting the murder of her classmate Meredith Kercher and was assisted by her ex boyfriend. The ghastly murder shook everybody two years back. ...
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• World Cup 2010: Outsiders Algeria will need to be philosophical

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Outsiders should not provide too many problems for Fabio Capellos men in South Africa
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• Xmas Shopping

  
  grow this — Authority: 111
  “He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence – they were ...
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• Books | In Chicago midfields, Hemon discovers transcendental soccer nation

  
  The Global Game — Authority: 91
  Nov 30 | As theological statements go, the title of Aleksandar Hemon s essay in the current Granta , "If God Existed, Hed Be a Solid Midfielder," would not impress the plethora of seminarians in Hemons adopted home, Chicago. Nevertheless, for the acclaimed writer from Sarajevo, absence of soccer means spiritual ...
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• Doves, the holy spirit and angels

  
  Angels on Your Shoulder — Authority: 126
  Aloha, Greatideas come into the world quietly as doves. Perhaps then, if we listenattentively, we shall hear among the uproar of empires and nations a faintfluttering of wings, the gentle stirrings of life and hope. Albert Camus This is one of my favorite quotes. When I first read this quote I knew the greatestidea ...
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• Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music

  
  Kottu — Authority: 170
  Freddie Mercury – The Dostoyevsky of Rock Music When Im dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. -Freddie Mercury Freddie Mercury emerged as a popular singer when Elvis, Mick Jagger, Ian Gillan, John Lennon, Barry Gibb, Mike Love etc dominated the music world. When he ...
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• ANNIE KEVANS ‘SHIP OF FOOLS’ at FAS LONDON Private View Thursday 26th November

  
  FADwebsite — Authority: 141
  Kevans takes the allegory ‘Ship of Fools’ as the title for her latest series of paintings which addresses her interest in the changing perception of madness and its relationship with societal notions of success and achievement.Towards the end of the Middle Ages, European authorities would deal with their mad ...
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• Sarkozy Faces Opposition to Plan to Rebury Albert Camus in the Pantheon

  
  ReadersRead.com Book Blog — Authority: 414
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy is determined to move the remains of Nobel Laureate Albert Camus to an honored resting ground, but he has reached a roadblock. Camus son is just as determined that his fathers resting place not be moved. Camuss son, Jean, says interring his fathers remains at the Pantheon, the Paris ...
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• Sarkozy Wants to Rebury Camus in the Panthéon: Non, non or oui, oui?

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 153
  French president Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested that in honour of the 50th anniversary of the death of Albert Camus , the Algerian born author’s remains should be moved into the Panthéon where the heroes of France are traditionally buried. But left wing academics and intellectuals are a little piqued at ...
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• Sarkozy’s Bid to Move Camus’ Ashes Stirs Controversy

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 727
  A French writer could do a lot worse than be buried alongside the likes of Émile Zola, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Victor Hugo, but some compatriots of philosopher Albert Camus, as well as his son, Jean, are none too pleased with President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to relocate Camus’ ashes to the celebrated ...
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• Albert Camus in Grave Condition, France Holds Its Breath

  
  Book Patrol — Authority: 497
  The author at rest. Albert Camus is in the midst of a post-existential crisis. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France wants to transfer the remains of the writer and Nobel-laureate to the Panthéon , the Paris monument to some of the great men and women of France and one of the nations most hallowed burial ...
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• Does Albert Camus belong in the Pantheon?

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  The problem has less to do with Camus grandeur than with the tactics of Nicolas Sarkozy says Henry Samuel.
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• Nicolas Sarkozy provokes French left by honouring Albert Camus

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Anti-intellectual leader accused of point-scoring • Authors admirers wary of posthumous recognition French intellectuals have heaped scorn on a proposal by Nicolas Sarkozy to bestow the countrys greatest posthumous honour upon the writer Albert Camus, accusing the rightwing president of trying to cash in on ...
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• Nicolas Sarkozy rebuffed in plan to move Albert Camus

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  President Nicolas Sarkozys rocky relationship with Frances literary elite has suffered a fresh blow after his plan to transfer Albert Camus remains to the Pantheon was rejected by the great writers son amid claims of political opportunism.
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• Thierry Henry and football philosophy | Agnès Poirier

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 160
  Henrys handball in a World Cup game against Ireland has caused an existential crisis in France. What would Camus do? La main de Dieu or la main du diable? After Zidanes headbutt, we now have Henrys hand . On Wednesday evening, judging from the noise on the streets of Paris, cars horns honking as though we had won ...
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• Can Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Make You an Intellectually Fulfilled Nihilist?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 438
  Richard Dawkins has famously said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has made him, not just an atheist, but “an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” In other words, by mixing a scientific theory with an ideology, Dawkins has found that his strict naturalism is, as it were, bolstered by the idea of ...
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