In August 1999, Barack Obama strolled amid the floats and bands making their way down Martin Luther King Drive on Chicago's South Side. Billed as the largest...
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NYT's Front Page Obama Profile: "The Ultimate Pragmatist"
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ALBERT COLLINS: Alive And Cool
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Albert Collins, "The Master of the Telecaster," "The Iceman," and "The Razor Blade" was robbed of his best years as a blues performer by a bout with liver cancer that...
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TwitBuzz: Tracking the Memes of Twitter
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I’ve played around with the various tracker and search systems for Twitter, and they’re all useful in a rudimentary way. This week, at Adam Ostrows...
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Marcia G. Yerman: Helen Gahagan Douglas - A Woman for All Seasons
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There were numerous subtexts up for consideration at the May 1st performance in New York City of "Don't Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas." However, front and...
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House GOP Votes Against Motherhood Resolution
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It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP has voted...
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X3F Week in Review: May 2, 2008 - May 8, 2008
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Filed under: Fan stuff It seems like Xbox 360 Fanboy is right on the cusp of the oncoming storm of great entertainment. Sure, GTAIV is great, but with E3 right around the...
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Music Review: Shy Child - Noise Won't Stop
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Shy Child are a band that is on the cusp of the indie underground. The indie underground has always thrived upon borrowing from the past to create something new,...
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Repubs Vote Against Motherhood
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Dana Milbank: It was already shaping up to be a difficult year for congressional Republicans. Now, on the cusp of Mother's Day, comes this: A majority of the House GOP...
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Here Comes Fredddiiieee!!!
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When they were at the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort, strategists Albert Edwards and James Montier were sometimes labeled as "permabears" because of their...
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cf.Objective 2008 Day 1
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The keynote certainly started with a bang, as Jason Delmore pulled a Mary Hart. So the keynote was cut a little short. That was disappointing, but thankfully, no...
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The road to Dharavi
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Stuart makes his first visit to Dharavi and writes about his experience. I always thought, the Middle class in India referred to the consumer class who shop and window...
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THE OBAMA FINANCIALS.
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Slate has a pretty interesting article on the finances of Barack and Michele Obama; long story short, there's a pretty vast gulf between the Obamas and either the McCains...
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Red Wings beat ailing Avs for 3-0 lead (AP)
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The usually tight and testy Colorado-Detroit matchup has never been this one-sided, on the scoreboard or in the trainer's room. Pavel Datsyuk scored twice and Johan...
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Will the failing financial sector put a damper on online advertising?
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While we have seen a recent boom in advertising, we may be heading towards another bubble bursting. This is all because we may be on the cusp of a recession. With the...
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Wii Fit: the 30 day test starts today
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Since about 20,000 people -- the overwhelming majority of voters in yesterday's poll -- apparently want to see me in pain trying to get...
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Microelectronics Gains Momentum
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With unique, open, chip multi-threading (CMT) processor designs, Sun is the industry leader in multicore/multithread technology. The Microelectronics Group drives Sun's...
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Thomas Allen Uncovered
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It's hard to believe (actually, not really) that I haven't posted since July! I guess it was just a very long birthday celebration that brings me now to November. On...
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Stop it! Can we stop with everyone being OpenID providers, and start being more consumers?
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So everyone is a buzz that Yahoo announced that it is now joining the OpenID craze. At the end of the month you will be able to visit openid.yahoo.com and set your Yahoo...
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David Sirota: Spinning? Fine. Spinning AND Lying? Not Cool.
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Spin, as we usually refer to it, is trying to take facts and present them in a way that is good for one or another candidate. We see this most often when it comes to...
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The End of Typing as We Know It?
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Well, not exactly. In fact, not even close. Much discussion circles around audio-to-text conversion, especially in the disability services community. Bill Gates even...