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Schneiderman for Attorney General
(The Nation)
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Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:41:39 GMT
The Nation - The Nation -- "Transformational politics is the work we do today to ensure that the deal we can get on gun control or immigration reform in a year—or five years, or twenty years—will be better than the deal we can get today. Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities."
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Happy Hour Vid: WSJ vs. NYT as Taiwanese Cartoon
(The Atlantic Wire)
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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:52:01 GMT
The Atlantic Wire - How would you like to see the New York City newspaper war explained through animation and a torrent of Mandarin? Taipei-based Next Media Animation has been offering up some pretty choice clips recently. Two weeks ago there was an edgy satirical take on backlash to the Cordoba House initiative. Today, the company explains the New York Times-Wall Street Journal war over New York customers.
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D.C. SCHOOLS CONTROVERSY SHOWS IT'S HARD TO SHAKE THINGS UP
(Cynthia Tucker)
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Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:56:22 GMT
Cynthia Tucker - WASHINGTON -- Here in the nation's capital city, something remarkable has happened: Students in the public schools, long regarded as among the nation's worst, have shown dramatic improvement on standardized tests over the last few years. Here's something even more remarkable: Local voters seem indifferent, if not outright hostile, to the reforms that have produced those academic gains.
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Obama must not let Taliban rule over Afghan women again
(The Christian Science Monitor)
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Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:12:12 GMT
The Christian Science Monitor - In mid-August in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz, the Taliban carried out a horrific sentence against two young Afghan lovers who had eloped against their families’ wishes. The punishment was death by stoning. Deemed by Islamic extremists to be justified under sharia law, the process involves partially burying the accused, after which a male crowd hurls stones at the victims’ exposed heads until they die.
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The Skinny on Google Instant
(The Atlantic Wire)
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Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:51:42 GMT
The Atlantic Wire - So this is what the exploding logo was all about. Today, one of the world's fastest search engines just got a little faster. Google unveiled its newest update to Web search, Google Instant.
Now, when users begin typing a keyword search, the
results instantly appear below. Marissa Mayer, the company's VP of search
products, says the new update is all about saving users' time. "Our
testing has shown that Google Instant saves the average searcher two to
five seconds per search," Mayer says. "That may not seem like a lot at
first, but it adds up. With Google Instant, we estimate that we’ll save
our users 11 hours with each passing second!" Reactions from around the Web:
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