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How Gingrich sees himself
Washington Post
Post Forum members consistently offer thought-provoking, timelycomments on politics, national and international affairs. Weather Watchers consistently offer thought-provoking, timely comments on climates and forecasts. World Watchers consistently ...
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Gingrich Was `On His Heels' at Debate, Hunt Says
Washington Post
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The Lady Pastor: Clear answers can be hard to find
Post-Bulletin
Somewhere along the way, the world around me turned from black and white to many, many shades of gray. My clearopinions have gotten murkier in recent years. I thought wisdom came with age. But instead of feeling more certain with each passing year, ...
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Post-Bulletin
UL Report and Video on "Energy and the Smart Grid Home" as Presented at CES ...
Sacramento Bee
WHY: To gain valuable perspectives from industry and government thoughtleaders on how they envision the near future of intelligent homes. Readercomments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable ...
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In dumb luck we can trust
Sydney Morning Herald
A moment's thought would have clarified the matter, but our minds are actually quite lazy. Of course, many of us do engage in "thinking slow" and carefully. But, according to Kahneman, typically this is done not to reach opinions but to justify them ...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Romney is no shrinking violet
CNN
In Thursday night's CNN debate, Romney delivered an aggressive, forceful performance that many thought he was incapable of. The upcoming Florida primary could turn out very differently now, and the results could go a long way toward helping him win the ...
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When We Thought the Bomb had Dropped
Subversify
For most of America however, in the roaring nineteen seventies, Russia was little more than just another country half way across the world, dark and looming, mysterious and highly competitive. Not so for Alaska. The Cold War meant that you were up ...
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Subversify
Internet dementia, or, why everyone in this column is an idiot
National Post
Two football players blamed for blowing NFL games last week were subject to what has become the usual vilification from theworld's enormous crowd of cyber-critics. What is it about the ability to comment online that brings out the worst in people?
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National Post
Should Paula Deen have kept her diabetes secret for three years?
Florida Times-Union (blog)
Readers have strong opinions about cooking maven Paula Deen's revelation that she has had diabetes for three years. We asked members of our Email Group what they think about criticism expressed by New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.
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Liberator, Inc. Announces Book Deal with Quiver Books
Sacramento Bee
The book, which is titled Sex Positions You Never Thought Possible, is expected to be released in June 2012. "We are thrilled to announce this exciting book deal with Quiver Books and can't wait to share its contents with our loyal followers and anyone ...
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Pagano: It's going to be a great journey
Sacramento Bee
"I thought, for sure, that I was going to be coming to Indy to play for a worldchampionship," admitted the 51-year-old Pagano. "That's what I thought I was coming here for, certainly not standing here as the next head football coach.
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Rudyard Kipling's Poem "If" Inspires Virtue-al Online Literary Magazine
Sacramento Bee
With those words in mind, All Things If features original fiction, non-fiction, editorials and poetry, as well as book and music reviews leading subscribers to thought-provoking authors and musicians, including relevant fiction and non-fiction works by ...
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'One for the Money'
Sacramento Bee
She may have thought she'd landed a plum (ahem) when she secured the rights to Janet Evanovich's Jersey bounty hunter heroine Stephanie Plum. But "One for the Money," which Heigl also produced, is a malnourished exercise in star vanity, ...
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Mahler Soars to the Light, Contains World: Manuela Hoelterhoff
Bloomberg
Hoelterhoff: I thought Mahler was rather death-obsessed. But the symphony makes the case for optimism. That view of the light was affecting. Lebrecht: He isn't death-obsessed. He is life-obsessed. His hope is that there is something beyond death that...
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Bloomberg
Media Lens shows it doesn't get the whole picture
The Guardian (blog)
Seated in the pre-dawn queue to buy tickets for the National Gallery's soon-to-close Leonardo exhibition this morning, with only my laptop to keep me warm, I thought to educate myself about a corner of the media forest I rarely visit.
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The Guardian (blog)
You Can't Read This Book: Censorship In An Age Of Freedom, By Nick Cohen
The Independent
Berger saw this as a class argument: the poor of the Third World, who were in this case Muslim, ranged against the wealthy, educated and powerful intelligentsia who could say whatever they liked about them. The next day, when I spoke up for Rushdie at ...
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'Albert Nobbs'
Sacramento Bee
The hotel's well-to-do patrons, on the rare occasion they give him a secondthought, consider Albert "odd." They don't know the half of it. He's not merely repressed, he's cross-dressed, a woman secretly living as a man so as to earn a steady wage in ...
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A son's loss eclipses even the community's | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2012-01-27
Philadelphia Inquirer
Bury your father, your world changes forever. That day was Wednesday for Jay Paterno. When you are the son of Joe Paterno, you share your newworld with anybody who can get a ticket into the Bryce Jordan Center. Jay Paterno was the last to speak at a ...
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We are the European Union
Baltic Review
They also marked three streams of opinions taking shape during the debate – the coalition, the opposition, and the National Alliance. Thus, according to BNS, Foreign Policy Institute Director Andris SprÅ«ds noted that “The coalition position fortified...
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Baltic Review
Embrace digital democracy
RU Daily Targum
I'm talking, of course, about the Stop Online Piracy Act, and its counterpart in the Senate, the Protect Intellectual Privacy Act. For the moment, I would ask you to put aside your personal opinion of the bill — whether you were a supporter of SOPA ...
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Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Friday, January 27
CNN (blog)
By Dan Merica, CNN Here's the Belief Blog's morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. In a recent conference call with conservatives across the country, ...
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Pesek: Krugman Take on $12 Trillion Question Rings True
Bloomberg
More about William Pesek Enlarge image William Pesek William Pesek Robert Gilhooly/Bloomberg A fiery debate has broken out over an issue many thought had long been settled: Japan (JGDPAGDP)'s economy is sliding toward irrelevance.
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Bloomberg
Emerging artists
The Grand Views
The artists each have different styles and inspirations, which have influenced their artwork and others opinions. “My style is inspired from everything that influences me, like my art classes, professors and anything modern,” Tabakovic said.
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Peace Makers Must Defend Iran - OpEd
Eurasia Review
The thought of this crime is enough to make any conscious individual sick with anger, but with no power in the world capable of stopping the United States, the die are cast. When George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, millions of people around the world ...
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California should give a shit
Daily Californian
By Javier Panzar I fucking hate opinions. That is not to say that I hate other people's opinions. I just always avoided giving mine. I attribute it to being the youngest of three brothers with a vocal father — to avoid fights I became a natural ...
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Daily Californian
USSA funding denied in ASM Internal Budget hearing
UW Badger Herald
Opinions among members of the committee varied, with some representatives expressing a desire for UW to be a member of both organizations, but they faced opposition. Rep. Tia Nowack said she felt the body should fund USSA because it would provide new ...
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Trash input
Lawrence Journal World
By Kris Bates, Lawrence What's the point of holding public meetings to supposedly listen to the residents of Lawrence express their opinions on the proposed trash and recycling changes? The Solid Waste Task Force has announced that, regardless of any ...
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Over Half of Americans Still Not Likely to Vote for President Obama This Fall
Sacramento Bee
Last month, 44% did not think he would be re-elected while just over one-third (35%) thought he would be re-elected. So What?Jobs and the economy are still the main issues that Americans want to see addressed. In his State of the Union address, ...
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My favorite superhero is perfect in every way, with endless power
Bowling Green Daily News
I kept my opinions to myself ... until now. Everybody was offering up pretend heroes. Some liked Superman. Some liked Spiderman. One liked Popeye, but no one else thought he qualified as a superhero. My favorite superhero was and is a real person.
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How will the addition of Prince Fielder impact Miguel Cabrera?
Bless You Boys (blog)
by Tigerdog1 on Jan 27, 2012 2:00 PM EST in Detroit Tigers Analysis In early December, 2007, the Detroit Tigers shocked the baseball world, trading six players, including two supposed "untouchable" prospects, to the Florida Marlins for Miguel Cabrera ...
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Madonna Watches the Throne
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Then I peeled back the layers a bit and thought, that she really did do everything she could to kind of avoid this situation. So, my opinions kept moving and changing. Sometimes they were more human to me than others. Sometimes I felt more compassion ...
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Muni Wireless Gets a White Spaces Boost
Zatz Not Funny
Thought municipal wireless was dead? Yeah, me too. But apparently that's not the case. The city of Wilmington North Carolina is launching the world's first white spaces wireless network today built on spectrum available between broadcast TV frequencies ...
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Zatz Not Funny
Students Across the US Write Code to Control Zero Gravity Satellites on ISS
Sacramento Bee
The goal of the program is to build critical engineering skills for students, such as problem solving, design thought process, operations training and team work. Students are not required to have previous programming experience before the project.
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37 Things Learned From the 'Hard Candy' Commentary
Film School Rejects
“I am a tiny little nymph,” says Page after Wilson comments how his jacket – that Page is wearing in the film – envelopes her. She also mentions her roommates call her the tiny Canadian. Wilson quips that he thought that was Martin Short.
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Group Blasts Miley Cyrus for "Disgusting" and "Sleazy" Behavior
GossipCop
She is acting like a very typical 19 year old in today's world. Having fun with her friends, at a private party. She has been with the same guy for 3 years and doesn't seem inclined to change that. As for your comments on how she made her money….well, ...
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Quasi-Intellectual Humor – The Girl with the Ironman Tattoo
Xtri.com
I read somewhere that there are two types of people in the world- those that come in for bed at 11:00pm and those that are just heading out at 11:00pm. Somewhere in my thirties I passed from the latter to the former without even knowing it.
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Xtri.com
Manolo Blahnik: Feet First
Wall Street Journal
By TINA GAUDOIN Since he began his career in the early '70s, Manolo Blahnik has dominated the shoe world. And this season, with the demise of the heavy wedge and the return of the stiletto and mule, every woman worth her salt will be wearing his ...
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Wall Street Journal
Zorba's view
Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Jason King is hopeful of featuring in the World Club Challenge against Leeds. Photo: Gregg Porteous. I MUST have a check-up this week. As I sat on my hotel balcony on sun-drenched Maui last week I watched in awe as a 40-tonne whale broke the surface ...
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Cumberland Courier Newspapers
Column: Ron Paul exemplifies Catholic values
Maroon
Mitt Romney has waffled on this issue, as he has on pretty much every question, and the less we say about President Barack Obama's views on this matter, the better. Paul's dedication to the human person is not limited to babies.
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Social RFID?
Retail Solutions Online (press release)
So, I thought it would be interesting to see what is new in the industry by contacting ThingMagic. Started in a garage in Massachusetts in 2000, ThingMagic has grown into a pioneer in the RFID reader field, incorporating emerging technologies like GPS ...
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Senior Swatlight: Linnet Davis-Stermitz
The Daily Gazette
At least, that's how it's always operated for me, where I'vethought about “what are all the things that I could do in theworld, and which of them would provide the most good for other people.” And I've sort of chased that kind of crude standard, ...
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The Daily Gazette
Emissions Trading Scheme for the Shipping Industry?
CleanTechnica
Another thought under consideration is simply taxing either fuel or the emissions themselves (straightforward in theory), while yet another is to level vessels' carbon caps. Also on the list is a compensation fund, where companies would pay out ...
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A Nobel Prize for LGBT Civil Rights?
Religion Dispatches
He is completing his Ph.D. in Jewish Thought at Hebrew University and his most recent book is God vs. Gay?: The Religious Case for Equality (Beacon, 2011). Today marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of Ugandan gay-rights advocate David Kato, ...
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Davidson pushes for greater school reform
The Dartmouth
“One never keeps up, especially in a world of rapid change,” Davidson said in an email to The Dartmouth. “The best we can do, as teachers, students and co-learners, is learn how to learn, how to change, how to adapt, how to transform.
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The Dartmouth
Out of Bounds featuring SI.com's Jimmy Traina
WEEI.com
Used to just you know they -- gamers they do features that you opinions but. I never really thought much of doing like a Red Sox blogger Celtics -- because. There -- a million other guys out there doing the exact same thing probably a lot of probably.
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