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Graffiti: Street art – or crime?

2008-07-16T17:53:51Z

[Ed. Note: Marielaem hipped me to this story, and I am grateful.] A group of south London graffiti artists were jailed last week for up to two years for defacing public property. Yet as they begin their sentences, their work is to be championed ...

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The Real-Life ‘24’ of Summer 2008

2008-07-14T18:09:17Z

Op-Ed Columnist The New York Times By FRANK RICH Published: July 13, 2008 WE know what a criminal White House looks like from “The Final Days,” Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s classic account of Richard Nixon’s unraveling. The cauldron of lies,...

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Psychiatric Group Faces Scrutiny Over Drug Industry Ties

2008-07-14T17:19:03Z

By BENEDICT CAREY and GARDINER HARRIS The New York Times Published: July 12, 2008 It seemed an ideal marriage, a scientific partnership that would attack mental illness from all sides. Psychiatrists would bring to the union their expertise and cl...

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Posturing and Abdication

2008-07-13T22:27:03Z

Editorial The New York Times Published: July 13, 2008 The Bush administration made clear on Friday that it will do virtually nothing to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause global warming. With no shame and no apology, it stuck a thumb in...

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History Deleted at the White House

2008-07-13T22:05:12Z

Editorial The New York Times Published: July 13, 2008 After watching wholesale lots of the Bush administration’s most important e-mails go mysteriously missing, Congress is trying to legislate against any further damage to history. The secrec...

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The Shame of Postville, Iowa

2008-07-13T21:56:34Z

Editorial The New York Times Published: July 13, 2008 Anyone who has doubts that this country is abusing and terrorizing undocumented immigrant workers should read an essay by Erik Camayd-Freixas, a professor and Spanish-language court interp...

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F.C.C. Chief Would Bar Comcast From Imposing Web Restrictions

2008-07-13T05:31:08Z

By SAUL HANSELL The New York Times Published: July 12, 2008 Federal regulators are prepared to take action against sellers of Internet access that want to restrict what their customers can do online. Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the Federal Comm...

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PM for Chocolate-Frenzy the day before her SU birthday. Sigh.

2008-07-13T01:10:15Z

Happy Almost Stumble Birthday! Lemme rustle us on up some grub, fetch your prezzies, and gen'lly get the party started. Oh, but first thangs first. This is for the gentleman w/the eau de poop perfume. Splash some on yrself too when it ge...

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It's the Solar Minimum, silly goose!

2008-07-12T21:53:56Z

What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) 07.11.2008 + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Email to a friend | + Join mailing list July 11, 2008: Stop the presses! The sun is behaving normally. So says NASA solar physicist David Hat...

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Teddibly sexy, what?

2008-07-12T05:11:02Z

First Jaguar D-Type fetches record £2.2m By Daily Telegraph reporter Last Updated: 7:01pm BST 11/07/2008 A vintage Jaguar racing car has been snapped up for a world record price of more than £2 million. Vintage Jaguar D-Type first appeared ...

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