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Gayle needles Oz pace bowler Bollinger
Thaindian News —
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Adelaide (Australia), Dec. 4 (ANI): West Indies skipper Chris Gayle has needled new Australian quick Doug Bollinger by provocatively claiming he doesn’t even know who he is.Sparking a potentially explosive new-ball confrontation in the second Test starting in Adelaide today, Gayle also made the amazing confession he ...11 hours ago -
Verizon ad confirms Droid is a not-quite pretty ‘racehorse duct taped to a Scud missile’
Family Learning Center —
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FIGHTING WORDS: The Greatest Generation Finds Its Voice
HistoryNet - From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher —
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The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, or WAAC, was established in May 1942 with the assistance of Gen. George C. Marshall (and Pearl Harbor). (U.S. Army)Our lexicographer considers wordsand phrases that developed asthe United Stateswas engaged inWorld War IIWorld War II enriched our vocabulary in numerous venues—the ...1 day ago -
Prime Minister Singhs visit was almost eclipsed by the silly Salahi story.
Slate Magazine —
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There are two ways in which the coverage of the contemptible Salahi couple makes one moan with shame to be a member of the "profession" of journalism. The first is the sheer amount of ink spilled and air time wasted on one of those easy-to-cover "breaking news" stories and the way in which many media outlets are ...4 days ago -
The "war on terrorism" didnt cause the Fort Hood shootings.
Slate Magazine —
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Its both amusing and educational to observe a consensus when it suddenly starts to give way at all points without yielding an inch. A couple of weeks ago, the consoling view was that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was a man more to be pitied than feared, a full-blown officer in the U.S. armed forces who was too shaken up by ...1 week ago -
Occupation Movement Sweeps California
How The University Works —
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Arrests of 52 students at UC Davis and others at UCLA ended 1-day occupations at both places, and at San Francisco State, but a new occupation has begun at Berkeley , where the occupiers report that police beat and pepper-sprayed students to re-take the building’s first floor. Students appear to hold the second ...1 week ago -
Seven salient facts about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
Slate Magazine —
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The admonition not to rush to judgment or jump to conclusions might sound fair and prudent enough, perhaps even statesmanlike when uttered by the president, as long its borne in mind that such advice is itself a judgment that is more than halfway to a conclusion. What it plainly implies in the present case is that the ...2 weeks ago -
Google Executive Says Companies Can Get Rid of Microsoft Office…Next Year
Family Learning Center —
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The lessons of 1989.
Slate Magazine —
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Lenin once defined a revolutionary situation as one that occurred when the rulers could not go on in the traditional way and the ruled did not wish to continue in that old way. Engels was more metaphorical, saying that revolution was the midwife that delivered a new life out of an older body. Both images come to mind ...3 weeks ago -
End to Subsidizing Athletics?
The Daily Clog —
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Since you can’t turn your head without hearing the words “budget crisis,” we’ll assume you’ve heard about the cuts in funding to various departments on campus. Since the problems began, some faculty even raised the question of cutting back funding for athletics. And this Thursday, the faculty voted to ...3 weeks ago -
The Audacity of Audacity
How The University Works —
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The 2000 students sitting in at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts ignited occupations at a handful of neighboring buildings and campuses, then leapt across Austria and into Germany (where already last summer a quarter million students, faculty, teachers, and parents struck to fight various sleazy American-model* ...4 weeks ago -
The United Nations shameful complicity in this years corrupt Afghan elections.
Slate Magazine —
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If the time ever does come when we look back on our intervention in Afghanistan as a humiliating debacle, this past weekend may well be identified as one of the moments when the calamity became irreversible. [ more ... ] United Nations - Afghanistan - War in Afghanistan - ...4 weeks ago -
Be Aggressive, Be Be Aggressive
The Daily Clog —
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Research universities may sound boring, but you never know exactly what those crazy guys will be up to. Perhaps they will be teaching Argentinian ants to hate each other, for example. That’s right, you heard correctly. Researchers from UC Berkeley have just figured out that certain chemical cues will cause ...5 weeks ago -
Is Your ‘Fiscal Crisis’ Real?
How The University Works —
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Is your administration using “the economy” as an excuse to extort more work for less pay from an already over-burdened faculty? Buying Howard Bunsis a plane ticket to your campus might be the best investment you can make right now. Bunsis, a Michigan professor of accounting and treasurer of the AAUP , has been ...5 weeks ago -
What Ive learned from debating religious people around the world.
Slate Magazine —
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This week sees the opening on various cinema marquees of the film Collision: a buddy-and-road movie featuring last years debates between Pastor Douglas Wilson, who is a senior fellow at New St. Andrews College, and your humble servant. (If I may be forgiven, its also available on DVD, and you can buy our little book ...5 weeks ago
