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Our new data from the weekend USA Today/Gallup poll show that Illinois Senator Barack Obama – who announced the formation of his presidential exploratory committee on Tuesday – is in second place among Democrats, behind only front-runner Hillary Clinton. Trailing behind these two are John Edwards, Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, and Wesley Clark. Clark has the distinction of garnering 2% of Democrats ’ votes – exactly the same percentage as Clinton received in February 1991. Even Christopher Dodd, who gets 1%, shouldn ’ t necessarily feel discouraged. History indicates that he certainly could in theory come from behind and gain his party ’ s nomination.
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Colts beat the Patriots !!!! Peyton Manning finally gets his shot at the big game! The sweetness of the victory is that it came at the hands of the Patriots, Tom Brady throwing an interception sealed the deal, and the score was the EXACT mirror of the AFC Championship game the Colts lost in New England a few years ago, 38-34. THE EXACT SAME SCORE!!! That part is what blew my mind. The difference, though, was that the Colts set an NFL record by coming back from an 18pt deficit! YEAH BABY !!!! Take THAT Patsies!!!
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Nine months pregnant and married to a fervent Bears fan with tickets to Sunday's NFC Championship game, Colleen Pavelka didn't want to risk going into labor during the game against the New Orleans Saints. Due to give birth on Monday, Pavelka's doctor told her Friday she could induce labor early. She opted for the Friday delivery.
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I watched “ The Dresden Files ” on the Sci Fi station last night and was pretty pleased with the first episode. I started reading Jim Butcher ’ s series about a year ago and loved his books. Poor Harry Dresden is not your typical hero … broke, put upon, never getting a break. In other words, a pretty typical guy who seems to attract a lot of bad luck. Part of the problem is the fact he ’ s a wizard and wizards are apparently a magnet for all sorts of unsavory creatures that us … the every day schmuck, doesn ’ t know anything about.
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So welcome to "Blue Monday" - Monday, 22 January - officially designated by a psychologist as the most depressing day of the year. It has been singled out by Dr Cliff Arnall, psychologist and former tutor at Cardiff University, who has used mathematical equations to reach his verdict.
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As Microsoft prepares to release Windows Vista to the masses, disparate Linux camps are banding together to prepare a counterattack. The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) is merging with the Free Standards Group (FSG) to form The Linux Foundation. The goal of the new group is to streamline efforts and help the open-source operating system compete more effectively against proprietary platforms. Former FSG Executive Director Jim Zemlin will lead the new foundation.
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With the departure of Ken Whisenhunt to Arizona many are now proclaiming Russ Grimm to be the heir apparent to Bill Cowher -- a trusted, respected assistant seemingly ready to assume the mantel of head coach. But such assumptions ignore the deliberative quality of the interviewing process (according to a statement by Art Rooney II the organization is trying "to determine which one is the best candidate for the Pittsburgh Steelers at this point in time." If Russ Grimm was the obvious choice then why the second round of interviews?), and the prediction here is that by the end of January Mike Tomlin is going to be the new head coach, and first African-american head coach, of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Or perhaps he ’ s angling for the vice presidency in which case he simply must not make the eventual nominee mad. He was considered by both Al Gore and John Kerry as a possible running mate.
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It is the second race row to hit Channel 4 in recent days. Celebrity Big Brother attracted more than 40,000 complaints over the treatment of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty by some of her fellow housemates. Jade Goody, who allegedly made racist comments to Shetty, has since been evicted from the reality show.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Senior Labour politicians on Saturday criticised police over the dawn arrest of one of Prime Minister Tony Blair ’ s key advisers in a probe into allegations state honours were sold in return for party funding.
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AP - President Hugo Chavez told U.S. officials to "Go to hell, gringos!" and called Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "missy" on his weekly radio and TV show Sunday, lashing out at Washington for what he called unacceptable meddling in Venezuelan affairs.
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According to people [or People, rather] Justin Timberlake played a sell-out show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to an A-list audience that included Alyssa Milano, David Hasslehoff, Toni Braxton, and … Kevin Federline. Britney's most recent ex was in Vegas at the same time as her former sweetheart Justin but the two never met face to face, although members of the Sexyback star's entourage were sitting next to K-fed and his crew in the VIP section of Tao nightclub. After the concert Justin and his friends ended up at the Mirage's Jet club, were he chatted to Eva Longoria, threw some shapes on the dance floor and sang happy birthday to his mum, Lynn Harless.
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Brownback faces competition for the Republican presidential nomination from such possible contenders as the high-profile Senator John Mccain of Arizona and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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12. Arsenal: Late goals from Robin van Persie and Thierry Henry to knock off Premier League leaders Manchester United in an electrifying finish. They 're only 12 points back, you know.
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Bears coach Lovie Smith is the first black head coach to be in the Super Bowl. Four hours after his team's victory yesterday, his friend Colts coach Tony Dungy joined him. What does Limbaugh have to say about that?!
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Since I wasn ’ t snowed in this weekend, I went and saw Flags of Our Fathers at the dollar movie with Adam and Kelly on Sunday. This is one-half of the Iwo Jima story created by Clint Eastwood, the other half being Letters from Iwo Jima (told from the Japanese side). I have a sort of special connection to seeing this story played out on the screen: my great uncle was a marine and was in this battle.
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on Friday. Mother of GOD. I sort of felt indifferently toward this movie, other than that I have a mild enjoyment of the Broadway cast recording, but now, well... okay, this movie was so beyond amazing I can not even describe it. Jennifer Hudson deserves an Oscar -- for LEADING actress, mind you -- if you ask me. Which, strangely, the Oscar voters never do. Still, I cried throughout the entire movie (for all good reasons) and ran out and bought the extended soundtrack the next day. It was amazingly, amazingly good. Jamie Foxx is great, Danny Glover is great, and even though I really hate Eddie Murphy, he was pretty good, but really, Jennifer Hudson steals the show. Now if only
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So this is what Robert Redford and his Sundance Film Festival consider art? This is part of the human condition worth exploring on film? Let ’ s see how this works:
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I don ’ t have a story on this, but the ESPN ticker is reporting that Bill Parcells is retiring. This doesn ’ t come as much of a surprise to me, except that every year he ’ s suppoed to retire and never does. Jerry Jones will be really upset about this, and T.O. will be really happy about this, until the next coach comes in and he hates him, as well. I guess the Tony Romo thing was just too much, and Bill decided to hang it up. Maybe Aaron Rodgers should try bobbling the snap of a potential game-tying field goal that could get your team to advance to the next round of the playoffs. Maybe that ’ s the medicine Favre needs.
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About 20% of commenters say that the Australian flag should not be waved at an event like the Big Day Out, mostly because they fear or don ’ t like overt nationalism, and/or because they are reminded of the Cronulla Riot when they see people wearing the Australian flag as a cape, or using it to demand patriotism from their fellow Australians, or (hilariously) tourists.
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# 3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes # 4 The Koran # 5 Arabian Nights # 6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain # 7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift # 8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer # 9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne # 10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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On May 22nd, I shot Public Service Announcements for MIFA, another cherished community charity. Instead of being "the annnouncer" (my usual role in Psas), I was interviewed by the good people who created these: 30 spots. In the finished product, they used some of my comments about the Metropolitan Inter-faith Association's agility to discern emerging needs and address them. It's a great organization born from the bitter burden Memphis has shouldered since 1968: the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Along with the National Civil Rights Museum, MIFA is some great and tangibile fruit that has risen from the labors of so many.
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Laywyers for golddigger Heather Mills have denied reports that their one-legged client has reached a divorce settlement with ex-beatle Sir Paul Mccartney.
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# 35 Red and the Black by Stendhal # 36 Das Capital by Karl Marx # 37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire # 38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle # 39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
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There were so many great moments in the game, from the Drew Brees'safety to Ogunleye's fumble recovery, to Thomas Jones - the one man show for a whole drive.
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Bravo to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations for digging into the doings of the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) in North Korea and uncovering streams of cash flowing via the UNDP to Kim Jong Il ’ s regime.
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This unprecedented alliance, called the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), consists of market leaders Alcoa, BP America, Caterpillar, Duke Energy, Dupont, FPL Group, General Electric, Lehman Brothers, PG&E, and PNM Resources, along with four leading non-governmental organizations -- Environmental Defense, Natural Resources Defense Council, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and World Resources Institute.
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i saw alpha dog again tonight. aha! i might be just a little bit ridiculous. it's cool.okay so here's the deal! it's been decided, and katie and i are going to california over spring break! i've never been and have always wanted to go, so it's going to be quite amazing. plus, i have a few friends there, and i pretty much already have a place lined up for us to stay at. now, here's my only dilemma... how the hell do i figure out where to find emile hirsch?! seriously. i know one of you reading this knows. so give it up. i need his babies inside of me.that is all.:]
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Yesterday, Roger and I decided to watch a Double Feature. We watched Casino Royale & Babel. All I Can Say is WOW for Both Movies.. Casino Royale was fantastic. Daniel Craig was excellent as James Bond, way more believeable than Pierce Brosnan. Babel was really really good. The writing was great. Its going to be interesting to see if they win the Academy Award for Best Picture (they already got the Golden Globe for best picture). I really want to see Notes on a Scandel, The Queen, Children of Men, Pans Labyrinth and Little Children.
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The U.S. Secret Service, brave and effective as ever, pounced on an 81-year-old Pennsylvanian late last week for having had the temerity to write to a local newspaper; in his published letter, Dan Tilli had referred to the execution of Saddam Hussein and concluded that
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At IBM's annual Lotusphere conference Microsoft announced a series of tools to help Lotus Notes/Domino customers take advantage of the unified communication and collaboration innovations that are being delivered as part of the recently released Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 technologies. See the full story from eweek reporter Darryl Taft.
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Governor Rick Perry's plan is to put $5 million worth of cameras on the border so people in the U.S. can monitor illegal immigration. The cost of this initial test was $200,000. Critics of the Web site, however, stated that the cameras led to the arrests of only ten of the more than 12,000 undocumented illegal immigrants caught each month.
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Now barring the fact that any, and in fact, every sufficiently large volcanic eruption could conceivably have these results (and has) I think there are artificial means of emulating this series of darkening days, starless nights, and discolored celestial bodies; Pollution. Ok, I am late on this score, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman beat me to it quite some time ago in retiring the horseman Pestilence who really shouldn ’ t have gotten quite so depressed about the smallpox vaccine, in favor of Pollution in their book “ Good Omens. ”
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# 11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli # 12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe # 13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank # 14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert # 15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens # 16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo # 17 Dracula by Bram Stoker # 18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin # 19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding # 20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne # 21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck # 22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon # 23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy # 24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin # 25 Ulysses by James Joyce # 26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio # 27 Animal Farm by George Orwell # 28 Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
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generally very good. clive owen is perhaps not the next great actor of our time, but he does a descent job as the bitter and alcoholic theo. claire-hope ashitey is great in the role as kee, a modern equivalent to virgin mary. she has genuine sass and is cool as they come. i like that about british heroines - they 're seldom the helpless victims they are in american movies. some interesting supporting roles as well, including two time academy award winner michael caine and the ever so lovely julianne moore as theo's ex-wife.
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AP - Keith Urban praised his wife, Nicole Kidman, and thanked his fans for their support during his three-month stay at a rehab center for alcohol abuse treatment, in a video posted on his Web site.
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A surprise no-show at this year ’ s nominations was Sylvester Stallone, whose record-setting lifetime total of 30 nominations and ten wins sets him up for the Razzie equivalent of the Irving Thalberg Award. But Rocky Balboa surprised everybody by not aggressively screwing the pooch, and Razzie founder John Wilson was man enough to admit it. “ At the first of the year, you could not have convinced me it wasn ’ t going to be a Razzie contender, ” Wilson said. “ I would like to publicly say that Stallone has made a good movie. ” Fair enough. After making movies for thirty years, it would seem that Sly was due.
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The Razzie Award nominations were announced today, with Basic Instinct 2 and Little Man among the picks for the worst in movies of 2006. A sampling of nominees includes Sharon Stone, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Simpson, Kristanna Loken, and Hilary and Haylie Duff for Worst Actress; Tim Allen, Nicolas Cage, Rob Schneider, and Marlon and Shawn Wayans for Worst Actor. The category of Worst Excuse for
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The Colbert Report (Comedy Central), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central), Late Night With Conan O'brien (NBC), Late Show With David Letterman (CBS), Real Time With Bill Maher (HBO)
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"After a long day hunting, there's nothing like wrapping your paw around a cold bottle of beer. So Terrie Berenden, a pet shop owner in the southern Dutch town of Zelhem, created a beer for her Weimaraners made from beef extract and malt."
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New Mexico governor Bill Richardson (D) and Kansas Senator Sam Brownback (R) announced this weekend that they will join the growing number of candidates who have formed exploratory committees to consider a run for president.
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Is Cameron Diaz dating Kelly Slater? Despite the reports that the former lovers had a series of arguments at the Golden Globes afterparties last week, Cameron Diaz seems to be moving on quite well from her boyfriend of three...
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Last night at the 2007 FOX Winter TCA at the Ritz-carlton in California, Prison Break star Wentworth Miller & 24 star Kiefer Sutherland were photographed together.
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# 57 The Color Purple by Alice Walker # 59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke # 60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison # 61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe # 62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn # 63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
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John Barrowman in the newspaper today. I can't'member the exact words but it went along the lines of... He thinks David Tennant is a sexy, sexy man. He thinks Christopher Eccleston is sexy too. He'd do them both... at the same time. Now how hot is that?
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Somewhere, Olive must be screaming in delight. "Little Miss Sunshine," which stars Abigail Breslin as an unlikely beauty contestant named Olive, won the top prize from the Producers Guild of America on Saturday night.
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Only one presidential candidate came to Memphis: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who now chairs the House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, with jurisdiction over the FCC. There was disappointment in the no-show of presidential candidate John Edwards, who has some of the Dean thunder this year with his Internet-savvy campaign calling for a war on poverty and withdrawing troops from Iraq.
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,) imagines that a recently deceased Kurt Cobain arrives at heaven ’ s gates and is greeted by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison (all of whom, like Cobain, died at 27). Cobain must decide whether or not he wants to cross into heaven, and the circumstances of each rocker ’ s existence after death inform his decision.
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The more intellectually provocative of the two was by Christopher Hitchens, the first commentator I've seen respond intelligently, not naively or dismissively, to Mark Steyn's new book, America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It
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Now that a few stars like Katherine Heigl, Ellen Degeneres and Neil Patrick Harris have publicy voiced their support for T.R. Knight in the wake of the "F-word" scandal surrounding Isaiah Washington, Washington's supporters are sounding off as well. Tichina Arnold and Terry Crews (who reprise the roles of parents on the CW's "Everybody Hates Chris") have recently spoken in defense of Washington. From E! News Online:
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SAN FRANCISCO - Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin building a line of servers based on chips from Intel Corp. and will receive Intel ’ s endorsement of Sun ’ s Solaris operating system, executives from both companies said Monday. The long-term technology development alliance, announced by Sun Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Schwartz and Intel CEO Paul Otellini, was seen as a sizable victory for both companies as they fend off threats from competitors in the high-margin server market.
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I played out a Colts-bears Super Bowl in my backyard with the neighborhood kids more times than I can count. I was eight years old when Jim Mcmahon, Walter Payton and the 46 Defense took the crown in 1985. I ’ ve never seen the INDIANAPOLIS Colts play for the title. The ‘ 95 Colts, who looked like the team of destiny, led by Jim Harbaugh was the Colts last best shot. And yet here we are …
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, new co-blogger Libby Spencer responds to Bill Kristol ’ s assertion on Fox News yesterday that critics of the Iraq War are “ irresponsible ”. I suppose it ’ s much easier to vilify the critics than to defend the failed policies of the war ’ s architects. At least Juan Williams was there to point out that Saturday was a rather bloody day for U.S. forces in Iraq. You can find Libby ’ s post here.
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Another problem this movie has is that it is being called “ A fairy tale for adults ” which is misleading. The time we heard of a fairy tale for adults it was Shrek and what they meant by that phrase was that there were some Austin Powers references mixed in with all the fart jokes. Pan ’ s Labyrinth is about the Spanish Civil War and there is a lot of war and torture scenes mixed in with a darker version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Make no mistake, this movie is brutally violent. Also, if you are squeamish about accurate depictions of pre-modern medicine child birth, you might want to close your eyes a couple times.
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# 11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli # 12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe # 13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank # 14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert # 15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens # 16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo # 17 Dracula by Bram Stoker # 18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin # 19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding # 20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne # 21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck # 22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon # 23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy # 24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin # 25 Ulysses by James Joyce # 26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio # 27 Animal Farm by George Orwell # 28 Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
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Country crooner Billy Ray Cyrus (that ’ s “ Hannah Montana ’ s ” dad for you tweeners), former “ 90210 ″ star Ian Ziering and Muhammad Ali ’ s daughter Laila Ali will join former ‘ NSYNC member Joey Fatone in trying to wrestle Emmitt Smith ’ s Season 3 crown.
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# 86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George # 87 Metaphysics by Aristotle # 88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Third grade ftw # 89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin # 90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse # 91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene # 92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner # 93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner # 94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin # 95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig # 96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I ’ m somewhat skeptical about health care plans, like that proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, that propose covering gaps in the health insurance market with a series of patches, such as requiring that insurers offer policies to everyone at the same rate. But at least the authors of these plans are trying to help those most in need, and recognize that the market needs fixing.
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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have rightfully decided not to move forward with the planned remake of The Graduate, yes you heard me right, The Graduate. The film with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft. Frankly I can't even see how they considered it in the first place.
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• "Best-selling atheist Sam Harris and pro-religion blogger Andrew Sullivan debate God, faith, and fundamentalism" here at Beliefnet. (Related: "Why there almost certainly is no God" by Richard Dawkins; "1 0 questions for Heather Macdonald," the conservative pundit who declared herself an atheist.)
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They get it so much that this year Miyamoto will be joined by Eiji Aonuma, who will talk about the making of the latest Zelda, and Nintendo's music man Koji Kondo.
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Hillary Clinton's announcement that she is forming an exploratory committee didn't come as a surprise to much of anyone. The last presidential campaign I followed with avidity was, frankly, the one that put Matt Santos in the fictitious White House of the West Wing universe. Viewers of the now defunct political drama may remember that Santos found himself taking meetings with influential political bloggers whose sites were not only swaying public opinion but bringing in impressive campaign bucks.
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I have to give huge kudos to Shawn Christopher Phillips, of the Wry & Coy Report, for compiling some of the least known and most misreported facts surrounding the case of the two Border Patrol Agents prosecuted for shooting a drug smuggler. Shawn has raised some very troubling questions surrounding the case - questions worth asking and investigating. He has also connected the dots in a way that the media has been unable (or unwilling) to do.
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I actually have an avatar on Second Life named Imriel after the character in Jacqueline Carey ’ s book Kushiel ’ s Scion, part of the Imriel Trilogy. If I ever get 48 hours in a day instead of 24, I want to build a virtual tennis world on Second Life. If I build my own virtual tennis tournament, what might it look like? First of all, in my tournament Andy Roddick would beat Roger Federer just once so that he can regain a bit of his Federer confidence.
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# 65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou # 66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau # 67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais # 68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes # 69 The Talmud # 70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau # 71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson # 72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence # 73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser # 74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler # 75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
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Step back and look at the country and our condition appears even more perilous. We face the worst foreign policy debacle in our history in Iraq, the largest trade deficits in the annals of time, the worst inequality since the Gilded Age, record family debt burdens, a health care system that is broken, an education system in dire need of basic investment, an energy policy that undermines our security and fosters catastrophic climate change, 13 million children raised in poverty and the worst budget deficits ever.
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A passenger barred from a Qantas airlines flight for wearing a T-shirt depicting US President George Bush as a terrorist has threatened legal action. Allen Jasson said he was sticking up for the principle of free speech by challenging the decision by the Australian flag carrier. Mr Jasson was stopped as he was about to board the flight from Melbourne to London last Friday. Qantas said the T-shirt had potential to offend other passengers. The T-shift features an image of President George W Bush, along with the slogan "World's Number One Terrorist". http: // news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6285971.stm
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A lineman's ultimate fantasy is to score a touchdown -- and it never happens. But it happened three times today.... "The touchdowns were horrific, three of them being scored by almost 900 pounds of human girth. Patriots guard Logan Mankins recovered Laurence Maroney's fumble in the end zone. Colts defensive tackle Dan Klecko lined up on offense, as he is wo nt to do, and barreled into the flat and made a nice catch and pivot into the end zone for a 1-yard score. Colts center Jeff Saturday found Dominic Rhodes'fumble in the end zone for a score. That's three pretty cool touchdowns." -- cbssportsline: Tell me I'm not the only one who wants more Jan. 22, 2007by Gregg Doyel
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Curse of the Golden Flower: This movie was awesome in a "holy crap did I just see that?!" way. Chow Yun Fat -- awesome. Gong Li -- awesome. Actors who played their grown children -- awesome. Ninjas -- awesome. Sets -- awesome, colorful beyond belief ("headache inducing," as Millsy playfully tagged them). Story -- melodramatic, but who cares? It's all about poisoning and war and betrayal and incest etc. etc. Let them aim for Tolstoy, even as they do not reach! See it on the big screen, if you haven't already missed it.
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# 11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli # 12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe # 13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank # 14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert # 15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens # 16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo # 17 Dracula by Bram Stoker # 18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin # 19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding # 20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne # 21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck # 22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon # 23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy # 24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin # 25 Ulysses by James Joyce # 26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio # 27 Animal Farm by George Orwell # 28 Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell
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can now be found here (syllabus here). The dissent, written by Justice Kennedy and joined by Justice Breyer, is here. Justice Alito's dissent, joined by Kennedy and Breyer, is here.
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The wait is almost over for Windows Vista. Microsoft wants us to believe that when its new operating system finally debuts on Jan. 30 — a date that's been five years in the making — our world will be turned upside down. Redmond's marketers have dubbed Vista's release as a "wow moment — that instant when you recognize that your life has changed." That's according to a letter from Bill Gates himself.
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More photos (Adam Brody, David Pinksy, Chad Allen, Lance Bass, Matt Leinhart, Ryan Reyonolds, Greogory Smith, Rashida Jones, Donavan Leitch, Ian Ziering, Chad Allen and Scott Speedman) from the Motorola and Nintendo Present The Motorola Late Night Lounge party after the jump.
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Losing American Idol hasn ’ t hurt Chris Daughtry any. This weekend he sang the National Anthem at the NFC Championship Game in Chicago. His self-titled debut album reached # 2 on the Billboard Top 200 in December and is still at # 4 in its 8th week, right behind Justin Timberlake! As if that wasn ’ t enough, Daughtry ’ s It ’ s Not Over is VH1 ’ s # 1 video this week on the V Spot!
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# 40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley # 41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser # 42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell # 43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair # 44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque # 45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx # 46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding # 47 Diary by Samuel Pepys # 48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway # 49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy # 50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury # 51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak # 52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant # 53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey # 54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
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# 99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown # 100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess # 101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines # 102 Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau # 103 Nana by Emile Zola # 104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier # 105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin # 106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn # 107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein # 108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck # 109 Ox-bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark # 110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
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Meanwhile, the Chicago Bears dismantled the New Orleans Saints 39-14 amidst snow flurries to win the NFC Championship and embark on a mass migration to Miami to square off with the Colts in the Super Bowl Feb. 4.
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With all the injuries, lots of fans want the team to tank games (or at least lose as many as possible) so they'll be in a position to get Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. But after talking to the team, seeing them in the locker room and hearing each and every player say how much they want to win, it's impossible for me to root for that to happen.
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* Today Show: Mccain on 1/4; Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) on 1/9; Condi Rice on 1/11; Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on 1/11; Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) on 1/17; ex-dnc chair Terry Mcauliffe on 1/22;
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I haven't seen much detail on the president's health care proposal. It looks like a new way of dumping more money into the individual health insurance market. In other words, by undermining risk pooling, it contributes to the "death spiral" whereby good risks -- people with low expected health care costs -- separate from bad risks. Some people would say, that is risk pooling you fool. No. But that's not my focus here.
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This week, I'll be able to pick out of the selection of opening movies. The only two movies that seem worth my time would be Blood and Chocolate and Smokin'Aces. The only problem I foresee with Blood and Chocolate is it seems too close to Underworld to merit dropping $10 for it. Therefore, I would go see Smokin'Aces. Smokin'Aces stars Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, and Ryan Reynolds. Buddy "Aces" Israel, a Las Vegas performer, has ticked off a lot of people in his move to testify against the mob. Just before he is placed under witness protection, he decides to have one last run at the tables, when the mobs moves in. Hilarity ensues. And by hilarity I mean assassins bent on murdering Buddy Israel.
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There are a lot of questions that will be asked and answered over the next few months as The Pats create the 2007 version of their team. Players will come and I am sure some favorite players will go. Has Troy Brown played his last game as a Patriot? How about Tedy Bruschi? How about Corey Dillon and Rodney Harrison?
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BLOGGERS in IRAQ: Michael Yon had another of his usual excellent dispatches from Ramadi. Bill Ardolino is in Fallujah, interviewing local police officers and such. Bill Roggio is in Habbanihay with the 3/3-1 "Snake Eaters." Bryan Preston is back from Baghdad, blogging about mistakes the US may have made, some of which many might find surprising.
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Los Angeles (AP) — Ron Carey, an actor best known for his work as a cocky, height-challenged policeman on the 1970s TV comedy “ Barney Miller, ” has died. He was 71.
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