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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Defining Merit

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 490
  What should be the goals and responsibilities of a great university? Should it strive to maximize the future contributions of its graduates to humanity? Or should the university define its interests more narrowly, in terms of institutional prestige, social cachet and financial wealth? Below are more excerpts from ...
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• There is nothing new under the sun

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 490
  ... except that the Jews, unlike Asian Americans, made a fuss about it. About The Chosen : ... But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and ...
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• A Poet Is… what Bob Dylan has to say.

  
  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 128
  Dylan is one of the most quoted artists of our time, and rightfully so. Just check out these nuggets of wisdom if you need any convincing: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. ...
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• Stacey Campfield in Senator Nacho Libre

  
  Liberadio(!) — Authority: 471
  Continuing a pattern of eccentric, irresponsible, and attention-seeking behavior that includes getting handcuffed and thrown out of an event for then-gubernatorial candidate Governor Bredesen, having alleged slumlord tendencies , and declaring he had “legislative immunity” from a lawsuit accusing him of ...
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• Examples, real of fictional, of food being framed as elitist or snobby?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 652
  Im working on a video project about the backlash to Obama mentioning the price of arugula at Whole Foods. Can you think of any other examples, real of fictional, of food being framed as elitist or snobby? Im putting together a video project about the ways certain foods get framed as elitist/liberal/snobby. Ive ...
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• The President of the United States Said That? – The Corner on National Review Online

  
  NObama Blog — Authority: 142
  President Obama, in his pitch to Democrats on the Hill today (from the New York Times ): Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• 11/07/2009

  
  Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir — Authority: 541
  Presidents Who Stare at Goats.
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• Wake up!

  
  Memories Documented — Authority: 117
  You should never accept or believe that people will underachieve just because theyre poor You should never treat people differently, or have pity on them because of where they live. You should never think that someone is "lesser" because theyre less educated or they were raised differently Most importantly, if you ...
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• Do advanced education and a challenging career make you smarter?

  
  Information Processing — Authority: 490
  Take a population of children with similar (high) IQ scores. Follow them for the next 40 years. Consider two subsets: Group A, those who obtain advanced (e.g., graduate) education and achieve exceptional career success as scientists, professionals or business leaders, and Group C, another group that end up in less ...
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• The Wages of Peace

  
  O'Ceallaigh & The Quill — Authority: 126
  As Quilly has already pointed out, there’s currently (5 November 2009) a “blogblast for peace” going on. A relict from the days when Baby Boomers were young, and everything could be solved by carrying picket signs and burning scrap paper draft cards. Quilly’s take is that peace among humans is ...
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• 11/06/2009

  
  Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir — Authority: 541
  Thirst for Representation.
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• David Horsey = Elitist Horses Ass

  
  Daisy's Dead Air — Authority: 527
  Hillbillies trying to attach the wing of a plane! Now, I ask you, is that FUNNY or what? This piece of elitist, nasty hatred brought to you by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer s David Horsey. I think he oughtta change his name to David Horses Ass. Just remember, next time someone tries to tell you there is no ...
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• Social Justice and Elitism

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 565
  “We should not discriminate against those who are well-off on the grounds of social justice” PSC Chairman Eddie Teo, on defending scholarships and some scholars Related Posts TOC at Hong Lim Park on Saturday – Social Justice and Fairness Military elitism in Singapore CPF – social security ...
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• You Know What Happens When You Assume

  
  Carol's Closet — Authority: 562
  According to The Left Coast Rebel : Dede Scozzafava guilty of bestiality, screwing RINOs repeatedly . I assume hes not referring to these: And speaking of ugly, Rick Moran. Rick assumes that he knows all about Conservatives. Rick thinks that Conservatives are stupid. I am tempted to give him a great ...
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• Who Calls the Majority "the Minority"?

  
  Carol's Closet — Authority: 562
  Via Memeorandum : Consider the following from the Politico post Conservatives take aim at leaders, Charlie Crist, other races: Numerous GOP officials have told POLITICO they worry that the party has been hijacked by a noisy and powerful minority that will keep the GOP in a noisy and not-so-powerful minority ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• AFI Fest…staff rude to PRESS, elitism casts poll, empty seats signal trouble…

  
  Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture — Authority: 132
  The AFI kicked off their much-anticipated week-long fest with a splashy red carpet premiere, AFI big-wigs were glad-handing in spite of nervous smiles washing across their faces by the second, and indignant members of the press grumbled about staffers with bad manners who insulted them at the “gate” to chi-chi ...
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• We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move...

  
  The Contemporary Conservative — Authority: 146
  From the Daily Times: ...“Maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know... As far as we know, they are in Pakistan,” Clinton told senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported. “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world... We (the United ...
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