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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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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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Paranoia - Big destroyah

2008-06-15T20:23:14Z

security theater comes to the metro. er, i mean metrolinkBy Wil Wheaton June 14th, 2008 @ 8:49 PM Mass Transit, News, Rants, Transportation As gas prices leave the “um, really?” territory and speed into the “are you fucking serious?” range, a who...

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Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face

2008-05-15T18:45:54Z

By NINA BERNSTEIN The New York Times Published: May 14, 2008 He was a carefree Italian with a recent law degree from a Roman university. She was “a totally Virginia girl,” as she puts it, raised across the road from George Washington’s home. Thei...

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GCHQ Confirms Violent Riots Staged By Chinese

2008-03-29T23:59:59Z

PLA agents instigated unrest to justify crackdown Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, March 27, 2008 Britain's GCHQ spy agency has confirmed the fact that Chinese People's Liberation Army agents posing as monks staged viol...

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FBI chief: Report shows improper use of subpoenas in terror cases

2008-03-06T01:52:21Z

Wed March 5, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary C...

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Ohio School Suspends Boy Over Mohawk

2008-02-28T08:41:22Z

February 27, 2008 PARMA, Ohio (AP) -- A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school. Michelle Barile, the mother of 6-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the hai...

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