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Feb 6, 2012

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Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 3-9
New York Times
Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. Museums ★ American Folk Art Museum: 'Jubilation | Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined' (through Sept 2) Having escaped the ugly, West 53rd Street tomb of a building it inhabited from 2001 to 2011, ...
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Pop/Rock Listings for Feb. 3-9
New York Times
For full reviews of recent concerts: nytimes.com/music. Fred Armisen's Playlist Live! (Sunday) Mr. Armisen, the affable punk junkie of “Saturday Night Live,” offers a torrent of cover songs by his favorite artists, from the Clash to Hüsker Dü, ...
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Corrections: January 31
New York Times
President Obama's victory in 2008 marked the first time in 32 years — not 36 — that a Democrat carried the state. (Jimmy Carter had been the last to do so, in 1976.) NEW YORK An article in some editions on Friday about the closings of two of New York ...
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Writers at the Ramparts in a Gay Revolution
New York Times
“Before World War II,” he says, “homosexuality was a dirty secret that was almost never written about and rarely discussed.” The year everything changed, he persuasively argues, was 1948. That year the first of the Kinsey Reports appeared.
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Killers' families struggle with shame, silence and fear
Bend Bulletin
By Serge F. Kovaleski / New York Times News Service Editor's note: This is an excerpt of an article in today's New York Times. Read the full version at nytimes.com. PUEBLO, Colo. — On a summer night not long ago, Maureen White sat alone in her living ...
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How Online Paywalls Are Changing Journalism
NPR
And this is I think a really interesting change because it isn't just, hey, we got a new source of money, which is always welcome in the newspaper world, but also because psychologically it moves the Times, the New York Times business model closer to ...
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Electronic dance music jolts the concert world
New York Daily News
By Jim Farber / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The band deadmau5, above at a concert in Austin, Tex., broke records with its recent series of shows at Roseland in New York City. Thousands of fans stare at a concert stage, rapt — even though it holds no singer, ...
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New York Daily News
The NY Times and the Perils of Journalistic Bias
Arutz Sheva
It's not the editorials alone, they are supposed to express an opinion, it's also the way the news is brought that marks the NY Times as biased. Below are the tricks of the trade it used against The Third Jihad. The writer is an editorial intern at the ...
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Chalco Leads N.Y. Index's Descent From Four-Month High: China Overnight
Bloomberg
US shares of Aluminum Corp., also known as Chalco, had their biggest tumble in three months and traded at a 4.5 percent discount versus those in Hong Kong, after the company reported net income probably plunged more than 50 percent in 2011.
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Bloomberg
On final day with media before NY Giants play Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI ...
New York Daily News
By Ralph Vacchiano / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS INDIANAPOLIS — Antrel Rolle gets on the phone three or four times a day, every day, with his mother, Armelia. So she knows her son can talk . . . and talk . . . and talk. That's what worried her, too.
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New York Daily News
Super Bowl XLVI: Live Blogging the Ads
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Jeff Pearlman, a columnist for SI.com and the author of three New York Times best-sellers. His latest, “Sweetness: the Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton,” came out in October. He blogs at jeffpearlman.com. Suzanne Vranica, the advertising and marketing...
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Juror Dismissed In Trial Of Marine Whose Pit Bull Mauled Toddler Son
WITN
At some point in time, through migrations, immigrations, war time, and peace time, the "r" was removed. My issue is this: It NO LONGER INCLUDES THE "R." That would be like me saying that my ancestral name of "SMITH" is now spelled "SITH" but still ...
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First Amendment Challenges in the Digital Age
Huffington Post
... several of the other law professors on my faculty noticed the headlines on the front pages of the WashingtonPost.com, the NYTimes.com, and even the Huffington Post, which had run the ominous banner headline "The Day the Internet Lost.
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The One-Page Magazine
New York Times
... + Global financial meltdown = Etsy THE BIG PROFILE: JENNIFER MORRISON By Dave Itzkoff Before her ABC series “Once Upon a Time” surrounded her with amnesiac exiles from a fairy-tale world, Jennifer Morrison knew she had a soft spot for fantasy.
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Dead On: 'Weegee: Murder Is My Business,' at the International Center of ...
GalleristNY
So said Weegee, the tabloid documentarian of New York's murders, car crashes and tenement fires. He found work and made an identity for himself photographing the small-time crooks, petty thugs and hard-boiled gangsters who defined the city's seedy ...
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GalleristNY
Morning Links: Happening Edition
GalleristNY
There was even something called a 'thrill club,' organized on Long Island to bring people in for exciting weekends in New York. They would arrive in limos. But they were mystified and mostly disappointed. As time went on, the audience became less and ...
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Card Corner: 1972 Topps—Bob Veale
Hardball Times
Would Veale's arm be able to hold up to pitching three to four times a week, instead of the one to two starts a rotation pitcher would make? And what effect would Veale's lack of conditioning have on his effectiveness. Veale had reported to spring ...
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Fox News Marks A Decade Of Winning Ratings; We Honor Them With Clips From O ...
Mediaite
Earlier this month, during the week of the South Carolina primary, the network landed in the second overall spot in prime time cable rankings, behind just USA. So how do we tip our cap to Fox News on this occasion? With aa few short clips of three of ...
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Welcome to the Meat Grinder
BullionVault
... unlikely to be anywhere near as benign for either market participants or those struggling, far beyond the Bloomberg screens and VaR reports, to make a living in the real world of industry and commerce, writes Sean Corrigan for the Cobden Centre.
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Placeplace and Other Places (PS)
IcelandReview
“Markvörður frá Jamaíku til Selfyssinga” (“Goalkeeper from Jamaica to Selfoss”), was a headline in the daily newspaper Morgunblaðið yesterday. The story was about the female football (soccer) team of Selfoss signing the 22-year-old goalkeeper Nicole ...
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IcelandReview
Harold's Chicken in Chicago. Best.Wings.Period!
CNN
Seriously, why else would you choose such a limited number, and why in the worldwould you include a chain... gak27 right on the money on both counts ive been everywhere in this country and have heard al the "best wings ever crap" and they do not know ...
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A Nation of Drivers
Wall Street Journal
The circa 1860 Jones horse-drawn street car, one of 18000 in 40 cities at the time, was in service in Brooklyn, NY, where the local professional baseball team was originally called the Trolley Dodgers. At the turn of the 20th century there were three ...
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NFL schedule, injury report
Columbus Dispatch
NFL Headlines from AP NY Giants at New England—GIANTS: Probable: RB Ahmad Bradshaw (foot), WR Hakeem Nicks (shoulder), S Tyler Sash (foot), DE Osi Umenyiora (ankle, knee), CB Corey Webster (hamstring), LB Jacquian Williams (foot).
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NYTimes Freely Mocks Mormons: 'I Wouldn't Buy the Underwear Just Yet'
NewsBusters (blog)
By Clay Waters | February 02, 2012 | 09:25 Mormon fear at the New York Times. The paper's online “Room for Debate” section, which “invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues” on Monday asked “What Is It ...
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Playbook: Bond fraud
Politico
NY TIMES MAGAZINE COVER, “The War Ends Here: Fighting to the Finish in Afghanistan's Most Dangerous Place,” by Luke Mogelson: “Year after year, month after month, Helmand has ranked as the deadliest, most violent province in Afghanistan.
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David Choe on the cover of NYTimes | The Citrus Report | Art ...
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We don't like to report on the finances of our friends, so we will let David explain about why he, David Choe, was on the cover of the New York Times today,
The Citrus Report | Art, Culture,...
Tom Nelson: Don't miss this undated writeup by the late, great John ...
By Tom
... CNN headline news, BBC, NPR, PBS (NOVA/FRONTLINE), WCBS, Time, Newsweek, Life, US News & World Report, Economist, Scientific American, ScienceNews, Science, Rolling Stone, Popular Science, USA Today, New York Times, ...
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LOS ANGELES News, Feb 06, 2012

Students at Claremont McKenna More Worried About Reputation Than Rankings
New York Times (blog)
... a senior administrator had inflated SAT scores submitted to college ranking guides was not the best way to make headlines. But they also defended their school, which has climbed to No. 9 among liberal arts colleges in the US News & World Report.
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New York Times (blog)

NATO report: Pakistan spy service still aiding Taliban in Afghan war
Washington Post (blog)
The BBC and Britain's the Times released excerpts from the report, which restates long-standing US allegations that Pakistan plays a “double-game,” supporting the Taliban's war across the border even while trying to quell its own Islamist insurgency.
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The Energy Report - The Wolf is at the Door
International Business Times
By Phil Flynn The oil market is getting less rattled by the headlines surrounding Iran. Iranian threats to shut down the Straits of Hormuz or cut off supply to Europe in a preemptive strike, have been like the old story of "the Little Boy Who Cried ...
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Crazy World: Woman who slept with 1000+ men was once a man
Emirates 24/7
BRITAIN: A woman who hit the headlines recently for having slept with 1000 men has claimed that she was actually a man. The 42-year-old sex addict admitted that a lot of men would be furious with her after learning the truth, reports The Sun.
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Kiddin' on the Keys - June 27, 1967
San Francisco Chronicle
Page one eight-column headlines in the LA Times last Thursday, one atop the other: "Baby Born to Luci - Jolt to Israel." Cairo and Damascus took the news calmly, I gather ... All those "Banned in Boston"-type jokes will now have to be scrapped, ...
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Occupy Oakland: Video Shows Protesters Breaking Into City Hall (LIVE UPDATES)
Huffington Post
OfftheBus contributor Paul E. Talbot shot video of the protest/performance: To contribute your own photos, videos or first-hand reports from political events, emailoffthebus@huffingtonpost.com. Chalk up another victory for the Occupy Our Homes ...
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Bruce Springsteen Tour 2012: Another Concert Ticket Controversy
International Business Times
By Carey Vanderborg: Subscribe to Carey's RSS feed Bruce Springsteen's recently announced string of concert dates is making headlines again. The Boss declared that he would be selling seats to his upcoming tour only through "non-transferable electronic ...
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International Business Times

Big major key to our music
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The system checks the text of stories against databases such as the Journal's stylebook and style dictionary (Webster's New World) and also against an archive of troublesome names and terms that editors enter into the system. If Tansa is used properly, ...
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Report: Josh Hamilton had a relapse with alcohol
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Hamilton made headlines in the summer of 2009 after pictures of him drinking and partying in an Arizona bar made their way onto Deadspin. According to individuals familiar with the episode, Hamilton drank alcohol on Monday night in an area bar.
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Follow Science Fiction and Fantasy
Salon
It's a book whose pages cannot be turned fast enough; a mystery with just a dash of science fiction and plot twists ripped from the business newsheadlines of the past year. Beware taking this book to bed with you, because you will stay up too late.
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Salon

Craig Evans, Francis Robinson, Lewis Rees on Cleverly Bill
BoxingScene.com
WBO World Light-Heavyweight Champion Cleverly headlines with the third defence of his title against tough American Tommy Karpency, his first fight in Wales for over four years and for the first time as a world champion. The show will be televised live ...
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College Admissions: Another Wave of Scandals
GoLocalProv
So, when the New York Times reported that the Yale paper had known about sexual assault allegations against their quarterback since November, everyone was stunned. Last fall, Patrick Witt made national headlines with his supposedly heart wrenching ...
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GoLocalProv

Students react to SAT inflation at Claremont McKenna College
Contra Costa Times
Students said they were surprised and embarrassed to learn that since 2004 the school has reported inflated SAT scores to college ranking services, boosting incoming students' math and English scores by 10 to 20 points. Some students feared that ...
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Newspaper review: NI and Republic of Ireland stories
BBC News
In Dublin, two very different issues occupy the main headlines. The IrishTimes claims that Europe's new fiscal treaty was drawn up specifically to minimise the prospect of a referendum in Ireland. The paper says Fianna Fail has joined other opposition ...
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BBC News

Chefs fight foie gras ban
KGO-TV
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A state-wide ban on foie gras goes into effect this summer -- in no small part the result of ABC7 I-Team reports eight years ago. It is a food fight that made headlines and spurred debate around the world, and some of these ...
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KGO-TV

It's not just human beings who are living longer – our pets are too
Financial Times
How old is the world's oldest dog? When Pusuke, the Japanese record-holder, died in December, aged 26, it made global headlines from Vanity Fair to the Hindustan Times. It also created a vacancy. Tracking down Pusuke's successor has proved tough.
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Financial Times

Editor-in-Chief: Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman
The News International
Those of us who are addicted to politics are, like all addicts, distancing ourselves from reality. We get our daily dose of shrieking headlines. And they come, on news channels, with dark red flashes. At times, we get tipsy with excitement.
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Italy's Berlusconi to quit frontline politics
Washington Post
Financial Times More world news coverage: - In Egypt, protestors clash with police - Khameini: Iran will back “all groups” fighting Israel - Muslim Brotherhood official says West neglecting Egypt - Read more headlines from around the world.
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Ford Looks Ahead to a Solid but Subdued 2012
Motley Fool
By John Rosevear | More Articles Headlines in the wake of Ford's (NYSE: F ) fourth-quarter earnings report on Friday were mixed: While some played up the company's third consecutive annual profit and signs that management expected more profits going...
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Patriots vs. Giants: Could Tom Coughlin Destroy Bill Belichick's Legacy?
Bleacher Report
His two greatest success stories in coaching are meeting head to head again in their quest for another Super Bowl title. With all the headlines this week about the Mannings, Tom Brady and his quest for postseason immortality and a Giants team that ...
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Bleacher Report

Will America's Solar Civil War Destroy The Industry?
TPM
That anonymity, however, its protected by Commerce Department rules, as the New York Times reported when the complaints were initially filed. “As far as the other six companies go, this is a multinational business world,” said Ben Santarris, ...
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TPM

Honduras, Murder Capital of World, "Made in the USA"
Kansas City infoZine
"The headlines have been full of horror stories about Honduras. According to the United Nations, it now has the world's highest murder rate, and San Pedro Sula, its second city, is more dangerous than Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a center for drug cartel ...
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The Spit Felt 'Round The World
The Jewish Week
In fact, Yeshiva World News reported back in November, weeks before the spitting story, that the Eida Chareidis (the haredi umbrella council) had condemned Sikrikim-related violence even beyond and before Beit Shemesh. According to The New YorkTimes, ...
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Dispatches From The Edge:Israel's War On Democracy (and why Americans should care)
Berkeley Daily Planet
But while orthodox Jews spitting on eight-year old girls for being “immodestly dressed” has garnered the headlines, the most serious threats to democratic rights have gone largely unreported, including a host of proposed or enacted laws.
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MERCER-GOLDEN: The right questions
Yale Daily News
By Zoe Mercer-Golden As I look at the recent headlines in national newspapers and in the News, two words come to mind: sex and responsibility. The two are, of course, profoundly connected, and each is devastating in its own way.
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