Sep 27, 2009 -
More school: Obama would curtail summer vacation
Obama Addresses The Nation's School Children From High School In Arlington
By LIBBY QUAID
WASHINGTON – Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Barack Obama gets his way.
Obama says American kids spend too little time in school, putting them at a disadvantage with other students around the globe.
"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year.
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Jun 24, 2007 -
OK - anyone watching? Here's my take of who's left:
Rory - can't be easy to talk with those big old teeth in her mouth. A little annoying.
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Sep 08, 2009 -
From Citizens to "Stakeholders": The New American Constitution
By Angelo M. Codevilla
"I'm going to get everybody concerned around a big table where all can express their views and their needs. And I'll express mine, and that will make sense of them all because I'll be president."
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Jun 11, 2009 -
It's kind of freaky if you think about it.
ST. LOUIS – It's an international mystery: How did a Missouri family's Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement?
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May 04, 2009 -
The National Socialism of Obamanomics
By James Srodes
It is commonplace today to believe we should refer to the benign innovations of John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression in order to understand what is driving President Obama’s team of economic strategists. But a look back to that time leads one to conclude the Depression-era economist who appears most relevant to what is going on bears the improbable name of Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht.
From his post as head of the Reichsbank, in a career that ran nearly 20 years, Schacht w as in effective control of the shambolic German economy for successive Weimar Republic governments and the pre-World War II regime of Adolf Hitler.
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Jan 15, 2009 -
Iran Wields The Gavel At The UNDP
Claudia Rosett, 01.15.09, 12:01 AM EST
What do Obama and Susan Rice propose to do about this?
Truly, I had plans to write this week about something other than the United Nations. But over at Turtle Bay, here they go again.
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Jun 05, 2008 -
For frugalists, bargain hunting is a lifestyle
For these extreme anti-consumers, your trash is their food, furniture
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24879628
By Allison Linn, Senior writer,MSNBC
updated 2:39 p.m. ET, Tues., June. 3, 2008
For Rebecca, browsing Dumpsters also is a way to protest the country’s rampant consumer culture.
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Jun 03, 2008 -
Celebrity chef and new mom Giada De Laurentiis is learning all about the joys of motherhood.
"She smiled for first time yesterday!" she gushed to PEOPLE Sunday at The Second Annual Kidstock Music and Arts Festival in Beverly Hills.
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Feb 12, 2008 -
I was reading an article in Vanity Fair magazine, that referred to the one below published in 1991 on Time magazine about the intrincate dealings inside the "church" of Scientology.
Monday, May. 06, 1991
Cover Story: The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
By RICHARD BEHAR
By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world.
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Dec 03, 2007 -
NEW YORK - Facebook pushed the boundaries of ad targeting when the online hangout presumed users would want the site to mine their Internet activity.
And its retreat this week — with the decision to make sure users agree first — underscores the risks social-networking sites face in helping businesses employ their wealth of user data to tailor and target advertising messages.
Dozens of commercial Web sites are embedding Facebook's free tool called Beacon to pick up data on users' activity and send alerts to their Facebook friends' "news feeds."
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