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• Switching To New Comments System...

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 152
  Booker Rising is trying to switch to the Disqus commenting system, but there is a bug. Hopefully, tech support will resolve things so readers can post comments today...
  2 days ago

• Bills Held To 178 Yards Total Offense, Clawed By Falcons 31-3

  
  Bills Gab — Authority: 126
  I am not going to be the one to question or prognosticate as to what happened to the Buffalo Bills today in their game Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons, but one thing was for certain: their offense was anemic, to put it kindly. Other than wide receiver Terrell Owens reaching a milestone today, the Bills basically ...
  2 days ago

• Merry Christmas

  
  wire to the ear — Authority: 125
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGmZIlxPEm0 Ho ho ho… I hope you got lots of electronic toys that make noise under the tree! Related Posts: Two ways to stream free Christmas Music Sunday Sounds: Rockin Around the Christmas Tree Frosty the Synthman Tweet This Post
  4 days ago

• All my works are personal alchemy: Booker prize winner (IANS Books)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  By Madhusree ChatterjeeNew Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Hilary Mantel, the author of “Wolf Hall” which won the Man Booker prize for 2009, feels “there is always a danger with historical fiction that it may fall short as both literature and history”.“So, when I took on this project I knew that it was going to be [...]
  5 days ago

• Canada, Christmas, and the Commonwealth

  
  Canada's World — Authority: 426
  What topics will make their way into this year’s Christmas message from the Queen to the Commonwealth? Any predictions? When I was a child, we’d watch the Queen on our  black and white TV, post Christmas lunch. Like this poet , I may have blurred many such occasions, but HM often cited the Commonwealth in ...
  5 days ago

• The Complete Booker 2010 Challenge

  
  Sun Singer's Travels — Authority: 115
  Ive been planning to read some of the Booker winners for years. But I get derailed by other books that spring out of the woodwork. As a little incentive, I signed up for the challenge this year. I plan to begin with Wolf Hall , the 2009 winner by Hillary Mantel. Basically, I want to see what Mantel brings to the ...
  5 days ago

• No happy ending in sentencing appeal by defendant involved in (illegal) happy endings

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 580
  A panel of the Seventh Circuit issued an interesting little sentencing opinion yesterday in US v. Young , No. 08-2357 (7th Cir. Dec. 23, 2009) ( available here ).  The start of the Young opinion helps explain the title of this post: Bok Young helped to run a day spa in Highland, Indiana, at which she and other ...
  5 days ago

• Second Circuit amends Stewart sentencing ruling to suggest need for longer sentence

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 580
  As detailed in this New York Law Journal article , which is headlined "Amended Ruling Could Mean Tougher Term for Disbarred Terror Case Lawyer," the Second Circuit has tweaked its recent ruling in the Lynne Stewart case to suggest even more strongly that a longer prison term may be required.  Here is the NYLJ ...
  5 days ago

• Welcome to the ward: A primer on some of next years key municipal contests

  
  Politicker NJ - New Jersey Politics News, Reaction, and Analysis — Authority: 609
  PERTH AMBOY - Local level jockeying is already underway in advance of next years mayoral and muncipal contests. Included below are some of the more intriguing prospects: PatersonTwo-term Mayor Jose "Joey" Torres projects an understanding of politics as a pragmatic undertaking, and speaks of the coming ...
  6 days ago

• December 23, 2009

  
  DailyLearners.com — Authority: 128
  I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. -Booker T. Washington more about Washington
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• Booker brothers score 41 as Clemson wins (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  Clemsons Devin Booker followed a missed layup with a monster slam dunk. His older brother wasnt going to stand for it.
  1 week ago

• Tenth Circuit affirms (way-below-guideline) probation sentence for sympathetic drug mule

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 580
  A panel of the Tenth Circuit today in US v. Sayad , No. 08-1366 (10th Cir. Dec. 23, 2009) ( available here ), affirms a sentence of probation for five years for a first-offender drug mule over the governments complaints of procedural and substantive unreasonableness.  The ruling in Sayad does not really break ...
  1 week ago

• Potential Pitzer Grad Speakers List

  
  The Claremont Conservative — Authority: 135
  A source sends in this list which the Pitzer senior class voted on: Margaret Cho Russell Peters bell hooks Cory Booker Tina Fey Nick Kristof Yuri Kochiyama Judith Butler Gavin Newsom
  1 week ago

• Instant Classic: The Live Anthology

  
  dk presents... — Authority: 123
  Santa’s elves left a nice little gift under my tree this year: the 7-LP edition of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ The Live Anthology. I had assumed that this was strictly a chronological, greatest-hits-style live collection – thankfully it’s not. The individual tracks bounce from era to era, but Petty et ...
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• An experiment with e-books

  
  Web Teacher — Authority: 426
  It’s an experiment to see if people will pay a couple of dollars to get a printable compilation of the material they could get on a blog free. I’m trying out the idea with two new e-books from First 50 Words . That blog consists of a daily writing prompt and a response to the prompt from me and from any of the ...
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• Died On This Date (December 21, 1992) Albert King / Blues Guitar Great

  
  The Music's Over — Authority: 142
  Albert KingApril 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992Albert King was a singer and electric guitarists who is considered one of the all-time greats of the blues.  What distinguished him from the others is that he was left handed but played a right-handed guitar upside-down.  He also prefered to play what is called a ...
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• For Those Who Would Change the Wind

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 490
  "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." Booker T. Washington, 1856 - 1915Educator, Author, Orator, Leader
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• The 100 Greatest WWE Matches of the Decade: 2007

  
  The Powerdriver Review — Authority: 127
  Edge vs. Shawn Michaels – Street Fight (Raw, 1/22/07) After Triple H had torn his quad (2001 was the left, this time it was the right leg) two weeks before this match at New Year’s Revolution in a tag match with Shawn Michaels against Randy Orton and Edge, Shawn Michaels was left to defend DX against the ...
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• Major questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The head of the UNs climate change panel - Dr Rajendra Pachauri - is accused of making a fortune from his links with carbon trading companies, Christopher Booker and Richard North write. No one in the world exercised more influence on the events leading up to the Copenhagen conference on global warming than Dr ...
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• Copenhagen accord keeps Big Carbon in business

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Copenhagen summit achieved its main aim, to maintain the carbon-trading system established by the Kyoto Protocol, says Christopher Booker As fairy-tale snow gently descended on Copenhagen, the great global warming conference degenerated through pantomime, boredom, chaos and anger to its entirely predictable ...
  1 week ago

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