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This week's Art Market News20 Apr 2008
LONDON / NEW YORK- Woman with a million dollar image 17th April 08. Reuters (Video) - An interview with Sue Tilley, the sitter for Lucien Freud's portrait nicknamed 'Big Sue', which is to be auctioned on May 13 (2008) in New York. …
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Dora The Explorer
Dora The Explorer. An example of free online games for children is Dora the Explorer. You may have seen Dora the Explorer on TV. And, you may notice how your child can really learn about math, music, physical coordination and even learn …
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Meet the IAAM All Stars22 Feb 2008
From The Sun's Katherine Dunn: The Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland has named the following players as the best on the court this season: A Conference All-Stars Janay Brinkley, Archbishop Spalding; Asya Bussie, …
Varsity Letters - http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/highschool/varsityletters/

Telecom Group Key Player in Immunity Battle
A think tank with close ties to the telecommunication industry has been working with a key Democrat in the Senate on a domestic surveillance bill that would provide telecommunications companies with retroactive immunity for possibly …
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‘Third Way’ Think Tank Pushes Telecom Agenda on FISA Bill
‘Third Way’ Think Tank Pushes Telecom Agenda on FISA Bill. By Matt Renner, TruthOut.org Posted on February 5, 2008. A think tank with close ties to the telecommunication industry has been working with a key Democrat in the Senate on a …
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Telecoms Crime and FISA
Telecom Group Key Player in Immunity Battle By Matt Renner truthout | Investigative Report. Thursday 31 January 2008. A think tank with close ties to the telecommunication industry has been working with a key Democrat in the Senate on a …
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Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s 2008 Powerhouse Theater …
(**NOTE: Fault Lines will be held in the Martel Theater of the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film, for two performances only.) Tequila. Whole Foods. Culpability. Prostates? The tortured integrity of reaching 40, and what it means for …
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Two important articles to read
Yesterday, Tuesday, was a good day to read the WSJ if you are interested in the state of healthcare in the US. I've risked the wrath of Rupert and posted them both below in their entirety. The first article below by Geeta Anand is best …
Max's Cancer - http://mikulak.blogspot.com/

articles in WSJ
There are two interesting reads in the Wall Street Journal yesterday morning. I took the liberty to copy and paste them to this blog so you can view them - probably completely illegal on both counts. The 1st article refers to the health …
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Video Clip: A Walk to Beautiful12 hours ago
"A Walk to Beautiful" is the true story of five Ethiopian women who suffer from fistula, a devastating childbirth injury and their journey to find new hope for better lives. Instead of living in a culture that ostracizes them for the …
NPR Blogs: The Bryant Park Project - http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/

Peggy Simpson | "A Walk to Beautiful"4 hours ago
Writing for The Women's Media Center, Peggy Simpson states, "It's hard enough to get US audiences to watch international news, let alone news about women, let alone news about a medical tragedy that has made two million women in Africa …
truthout - http://truthout.org

WMC Exclusive: "A Walk to Beautiful" - The Power of Women's Stories
But as Peggy Simpson writes in today's WMC Exclusive, that's just what PBS/NOVA did in producing A Walk to Beautiful, a documentary airing tonight about the epidemic of obstetric fistula, a totally preventable medical condition that …
Majority Post - http://womensmediacenter.com/b2evolution/index.php?blog=5

A Walk to Beautiful
NOVA: A Walk to Beautiful, airs Tuesday, May 13 at 9:00 pm on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami This program tells the story of three women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by …
Impromp2, The Community Blog - http://channel2.typepad.com/channel_2/

A Walk to Beautiful
Tonight, May 13, PBS is airing an award-winning documentary on NOVA called, A Walk to Beautiful, which is about the work done by the doctor in this book. I've set my DVR and look forward to watching it when I get back. …
Radical Womanhood - http://solofemininity.blogs.com/posts/

Nova Takes a "Walk to Beautiful"
"A Walk to Beautiful" eschews the standard Nova-style narration, and while not all documentaries need a "voice of god" narrator, this one certainly could use some more direction than it has. The documentary begins by plopping the viewer …
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TV Review: Nova - "A Walk to Beautiful"
… doesn't mean the documentary is particularly well constructed or presented in a terribly interesting way. A good example of this is the newest Nova episode, "A Walk to Beautiful." The episode is actually a shortened version of an…
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Nova: A Walk to Beautiful (Review)
For all its attention to the good work done by doctors in Ethiopia, A Walk to Beautiful maintains focus on its women subjects.
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Three documentaries; two deadly, one 'Beautiful'
On the other hand, “A Walk to Beautiful” (8 pm Tuesday, WTTW-Ch. 11) may be the most moving documentary of the year. I spent parts of this hourlong film wiping away tears, contemplating the resilience of young Ethiopian women whose …
The Watcher - http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/

Five Things to Do Today
PBS presents A Walk to Beautiful, a one-hour doc that explores the tragic lives of Ethiopian women who’ve become outcasts in their communities due to obstetric fistula, a serious childbirth injury. 2. Vote on your favorite waterfront …
Blurbex - http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/blurbex

The Post-American World: Fareed Zakaria
Amazon.com.
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Fareed Zakaria: McCain Would Mean Second Cold War
Thank God someone out there is scrutinizing McCain’s neocon craziness. Newsweek:. On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. …
Crooks and Liars - http://www.crooksandliars.com

Fareed Zakaria | McCain vs. McCain29 Apr 2008
Fareed Zakaria writes for Newsweek: "Amid the din of the dueling democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the presidential race-you know, John McCain. McCain is said to be benefiting from this politically because …
truthout - http://truthout.org

The Future of American Power
Despite some eerie parallels between the position of the United States today and that of the British Empire a century ago, there are key differences. Britain's decline was driven by bad economics. The United States, in contrast, …
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McCain’s Radical Foreign Policy - Fareed Zakaria
McCain’s Radical Foreign Policy. http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/fareed_zakaria/2008/04/mccains_radical_foreign_policy.html. Amid the din of the dueling Democrats, people seem to have forgotten about that other guy in the …
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Zakaria: Mccain Vs. Mccain26 Apr 2008
He seems to think he can magically unite the two main strands in the foreign-policy establishment. He can't.
Newsweek Columnists - Fareed Zakaria - World View - http://www.newsweek.com/id/43811/output/rss

Fareed Zakaria Being Sensible about John McCain’s League of …
Fareed Zakaria plays the game much better, as he looks at it from the US perspective. Not to worry though; the Democratic candidates can pop off on NAFTA because they know that Canada and Mexico are not going to renegotiate, …
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Methinks Fareed Zakaria Will Vote for Barack Obama
He writes:. Mccain Vs. Mccain | Print Article | Newsweek.com: On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy… the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years. Yet almost no one noticed. …
Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Economist… - http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria on John McCain's foreign-policy …
Mr. Zakaria tell us, "On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. It contained within it the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate …
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Fareed Zakaria on John McCain's Foreign Policy Vision
Fareed Zakaria has a bit to say about John McCain's foreign policy speech from back in March. On March 26, McCain gave a speech on foreign policy in Los Angeles that was billed as his most comprehensive statement on the subject. …
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Colbert and Jacoby on Truthiness
This just now. Stephen Colbert mentioned his coinage truthiness when talking to his guest, Susan Jacobi, the author of The Age of Unreason. Susan Jacoby: Truthiness is to truth what military music is to music. …
Heteronormativity and Performativity - http://www.brikenaribaj.com/

Susan Jacoby
Author of “The Age of American Unreason”!
ColbertNation.com - http://www.colbertnation.com

Susan Jacoby on American Culture
Via NYT: “Whether watching television news, consulting political blogs or (more rarely) reading books, Americans today have become a people in search of validation for opinions that they already hold,” Susan Jacoby, the author of “The …
Idealog - http://www.idealog.us/

Guest suggestion: Susan Jacoby on American Culture
Susan Jacoby would make a great author interview for The Daily Show. Via NYT: “Whether watching television news, consulting political blogs or (more rarely) reading books, Americans today have become a people in search of validation for …
Daily Show News - http://www.dailyshownews.com/

Susan Jacoby | Talking to Ourselves20 Apr 2008
In The Los Angeles Times, Susan Jacoby writes: "As dumbness has been defined downward in American public life during the last two decades, one of the most important and frequently overlooked culprits is the public's increasing …
truthout - http://truthout.org

SUSAN JACOBY DOESN'T GET IT
In an LA Times op-ed, she attempts to blame us for wingnut slime:. It is past time for Americans to stop attributing the polarization of our public life to the media, the demon entity "Washington" or "the elites. …
RADAMISTO - http://radamisto.blogspot.com/

Reasonable vs. Unreasonable
Reasonable: For Susan Jacoby to stick to writing books. Unreasonable: For Susan Jacoby to write/talk about beauty. I saw Susan Jacoby on the Colbert Report tonight and she has to be one of the most awkwardest looking people I have seen …
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Susan Jacoby op-ed in the Los Angeles Times
Susan Jacoby, author of the new book The Age of American Unreason, has published an op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times titled "Talking to Ourselves": "Whether watching television news, consulting political blogs or (more rarely) reading …
In Search of the Miraculous - http://www.briansholis.com/insearch/

The Age of American Unreason, by Susan Jacoby20 Apr 2008
And it changes everything for me, from how I address my readers to my overall expectations of liberty in the world we actually live in. Ms. Jacoby gives an example of the destructive, antihuman effects of such widespread unreason.
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Susan Jacoby - Talking to Ourselves
By Susan Jacoby April 20, 2008. As dumbness has been defined downward in American public life during the last two decades, one of the most important and frequently overlooked culprits is the public’s increasing reluctance to give a fair …
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YouTube - Sexism, Misogyny, Women's History & Hillary Clinton
YouTube - Sexism, Misogyny, Women's History & Hillary Clinton.
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Boehlert on Chris Matthews: Misogyny pays
�See, misogyny pays. And according to the Times, Matthews has three Mercedes in his driveway to prove it.�
Crooks and Liars - http://www.crooksandliars.com

For Chris Matthews, Misogyny Pays Handsomely18 Apr 2008
Matthews fulfills every macho media club display: obsessive social climbing, primitive sexism and just plain stupidity.
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Sexism and Misogyny and its effects on men may explain male suicide
My father is 81 now, and 17 years ago, just after his retirement, I went with him and my mom to see the movie �The Doctor�. The theater was crowded, so I sat in a seat in the row directly in front of my mom and dad, and during the film, …
Parental Abduction is Child Abuse - http://shekidnappedmychildren.wordpress.com

For Chris Matthews, Misogyny Pays Handsomely18 Apr 2008
… Matthews and his sexist and racist remarks that Boehlert argues have helped propel his career and land him on the cover of Time Magazine. "Why has this happened?" asks Boehlert. "Because misogyny pays," he answers his own question.
truthout - http://truthout.org

Clinton, Criticism, and Misogyny
What I actually am doing, below and elsewhere, is making that point that particular ways of criticizing Hillary Clinton trade on very specific and ancient misogynist frames, and that those particular ways of criticizing her cannot be …
Shakesville - http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/

Misogyny, Sexism, & the Gender Gap in the 2008 Election
Lengthy, data rich posts from Corrente:. Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV.
Feminist Law Professors - http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu

Boehlert: For Chris Matthews, misogyny pays16 Apr 2008
Simple: The press plays dumb about the misogyny, and the Times magazine article was a perfect example. (The political press hates the word misogyny and considers the idea to be cuckoo. Click here to watch Keith Olbermann jump down Elton …
Media Matters for America - http://mediamatters.org

Erica Jong: Misogyny, Momism and Militarism
Elton John recently expressed surprise at the misogyny of the American media as it relates to Hillary Clinton. I have been stunned by it — especially the random physical put-downs that are everywhere. Matt Taibbi* refers to "flabby …
The Blog - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/

Alex Kochno: When Misogyny Goes Wrong, So Very Very Wrong
If you couldn�t tell by the run-on sentences, the misogynist who sent the nasty e-mail isn�t the smartest cookie. Seems as though he sent it from his school email address. Whoops! I can�t �scientifically prove� it, but that seems like a …
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