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Original Technorati articles tagged “the wire”

• in Politics
  Hollywood Could Educate the White House
  Has Hollywood shown us a possible solution to our economic woes?
  by westonmccready / on Oct 14, 2011
• in TV
  Death by Pants Off Dance Off
  Countdown To Meltdown
  by mactingz / on Oct 6, 2010
• in Social Media
  HBO Premieres Treme Trailer
  HBO recently premiered a new trailer for David Simon's upcoming series Treme and the consensus is pretty much universal that it looks amazing
  by bryanmckay / on Mar 17, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “the wire”

 

• Number of high-school students with jobs hits 20-year low

  
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  Did somebody say McJobless? The American job market is no place for students as the number of employed high schoolers has hit its lowest level in more than 20 years, according to new figures from the National Center for Education Statistics. In 1990, 3...
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• Democrats refuse to sling mud in New Mexico primary

  
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  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Four years ago, Heather Wilson gave up her House seat from New Mexico to make a run for a rare opening in the Senate. She lost in a bare-knuckled Republican primary. This year she has the luxury of sitting back as the Democrat...
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• Government steps up its mortgage fraud probe

  
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  The Justice Department has expanded its ongoing effort to uncover the mortgage fraud and abuse that helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis, offering "substantial financial help" to corporate insiders willing to serve as whistleblowers. The depart...
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• Food-stamp fraud spurs a crackdown

  
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  Food-stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards. The A...
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• Obama returns to Iowa to stump

  
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  On his second visit in a month to the battleground state of Iowa, President Obama accused congressional Republicans on Thursday of risking a slowdown in the economic recovery. Mr. Obama toured a plant in Newton, Iowa, that manufactures blades for wind ...
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• Inside Politics: Human rights problems assessed in China, Vietnam

  
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  The State Department says human rights conditions have deteriorated in China and that Vietnam continues to severely restrict political rights and freedom of expression. The judgments were made in the departments annual assessment of human rights aroun...
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• Key figure in GSA partying probe leaves

  
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  Jeffrey Neely, the central figure in a lavish taxpayer-funded Las Vegas convention that saw magic acts and federal workers sipping martinis on a red carpet, has left the General Services Administration (GSA). The departure comes as scrutiny on the 2010...
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• Senate wants patients to buy American meds

  
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  No, Canada. More than a decade after the first skirmishes over allowing American consumers to buy cheaper prescription drugs from the Great White North, the issue is still a loser — and by wider margins than ever. The Senate rejected the latest p...
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• Exclusive Interview: AWAKE star Steve Harris on the NBC series

  
  Assignment X - The Pop Culture Entertainment Magazine for Movies, TV, DVD, Blu-ray, Video Games, Books, Comics and Technology - News, Interviews, Reviews, Photos and Videos — Authority: 480
  Exclusive Interview: AWAKE star Steve Harris on the NBC series Steve Harris in AWAKE - Season 1 - "Black Water" | ©2012 NBC/Jordin Althaus AWAKE , which has its series finale tonight on NBC, has been a fascinating mixture of procedural and what-if. Creator Kyle Killen’s story posits that, following a ...
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• Tony Parker Ready to Attack Russell Westbrook

  
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  by Marcel Mutoni /  @marcel_mutoni As far as Tony Parker is concerned, Russell Westbrook has yet to face a real challenge at his position so far in these Playoffs. Parker is right, of course, as Westbrook has only had to deal with a decaying Jason Kidd, and the inexperienced Ramon Sessions in the first two rounds. ...
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• Food Truck Bylaw Takes U-turn Back to Committee

  
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  Hamilton, Canada - The push to relax the rules for Hamilton’s food trucks has hit a snag. Councillors stalled a decision about changes governing the city’s mobile eateries at their meeting Wednesday night, arguing they didn’t know whether those changes …
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• Life after print – a documentary on the future of investigative reporting

  
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  Interesting project here from Adam Chadwick, a filmmaker and former staffer at The New York Times (laid-off in 2009), who is making a feature-length documentary on the US newspaper industry crisis and the changing dynamics of investigative reporting. Called ” Fit To Print ” the independent film examines ...
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• Third Degree: Matt Hilton, thriller writer and creator of Joe Hunter

  
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  We brought thriller writer MATT HILTON into headquarters for questioning about his TV and reading activities. Matt has written a string of bestsellers and will this weekend be giving a talk on Unarmed Combat in Crime Fiction: The Myths Dispelled at Bristols CrimeFest. As youd expect from a martial arts devotee and the ...
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• Senate committee to investigate charity it suspects may be exploiting veterans

  
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  U.S. Sen. Max Baucus of Montana said Wednesday that the legislative finance committee that he chairs is launching an investigation into a charity it suspects may be exploiting veterans.
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• Tea-party target Hatch gets Palin’s endorsement

  
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  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin endorsed Utah Sen. Orrin G. Hatchs re-election bid Wednesday, calling the onetime tea-party target a "lifelong conservative" who has fought for a balanced-budget amendment and for conservative Supreme Court justices. "We...
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• Hollywood offered access to SEAL

  
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  Obama administration officials offered Hollywood filmmakers access to a member of the top secret Navy SEALs team that killed Osama bin Laden last year, newly released documents show. Although the film producers never met with the SEAL, the news of the ...
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• Progressive’s Flo Jumps on a Food Truck

  
  Mobile Cuisine Magazine — Authority: 125
  Progressive Insurance has joined the national food truck trend with a new commercial truck insurance commercial where Flo (Progressive’s popular pitch women) helps out on a food truck. The insurance company has been covering food trucks with insurance for sometime …
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• Katrina Survivor Launches Food Truck in Chicago

  
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  CHICAGO, IL - The New Orleans cuisine truck parked outside Kennedy King College on Tuesday wasn’t just selling red beans and rice, gumbo, shrimp and grits, and other Cajun eats. Proprietor Tracee Bright, a 38-year-old mother of four and 2010 …
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• Charlotte Bobcats to Interview Jerry Sloan

  
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  by Marcel Mutoni /  @marcel_mutoni Having been away from the grind of coaching an NBA team for over a year now, Jerry Sloan has the itch again. And, wouldn’t you know it, but Sloan has interest in coaching the sad-sack that is otherwise known as the Charlotte Bobcats. Sloan is expected to meet with ...
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• Sen. Collins claims Secret Service prostitution scandal wider than believed

  
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  Several small groups of Secret Service employees separately visited clubs, bars and brothels in Colombia prior to a visit by President Barack Obama last month and engaged in reckless, "morally repugnant" behavior, Sen. Susan Collins says.
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