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Do Women Hate Men Who Cheat?

Michael Wolff | Posted October 5, 2009 | Living

Read More: Affairs, Cheaters, Cheating, David Letterman, David Letterman Cheating, David Letterman Extortion, Michael Wolff

Part of the post-mortem on the Letterman-sex-and-shakedown story is about the damage he might have done to his female audience. Women may stop watching him with the same consistency or attention because he wasn't monogamous. The implication is that the women of America have an instinctive sympathy for...

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Republicans: The Party of Whiners

Gail Vida Hamburg | Posted October 5, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Gop, President Obama, Republican Party

Republicans: The Party of Whiners

Sen. Phil Gramm, economic adviser to John McCain's Presidential campaign, got it only half wrong when he called us a nation of whiners. He would have nailed it if he'd hurled the charge with more accuracy -- at his own party and its...

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What Next In Afghanistan?

Taylor Marsh | Posted October 5, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Mujahideen, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Women, Women's Rights

I have no idea to whom the "sources close to the Administration" refers in this UK article, but a headline screaming "Barack Obama furious at General Stanley McChrystal" seems to come backed with it's own agenda, if you ask me.

Everyone is meeting, listening and thinking about Afghanistan....

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75 Guantanamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today

Andy Worthington | Posted October 5, 2009 | Politics

Last week, the Obama administration finally admitted that it might not be possible to close Guantánamo by the President's self-imposed deadline of January 22, 2010, when defense secretary Robert Gates told ABC News' "This Week" that it was "going to be tough" to meet the deadline. The announcement followed...

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How Would the Right Know It's Wrong?

Marty Kaplan | Posted October 5, 2009 |

While the left despairs of Barack Obama's capitulation to K Street and Wall Street, the right continues to insist that he's a Marxist, socialist, communist enemy of capitalism. What could possibly convince the right that it's wrong - about that, or anything else?

Not the press. The right gets its...

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Books I'm Finally Throwing Out

Lewis Grossberger | Posted October 5, 2009 | Books

Read More: Bad Books, Book Humor, Books, Comedy, Funny Books, Throwing Out Books

This is killing me. It's killing me! I hate throwing out books. Especially my favorites. And they're all my favorites. But some of the stacks are so high they're threatening to topple and literally (as well as literarily) kill me. So something has to go. Here are the books I've...

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Attack on UN in Islamabad Will Have Serious Ripple Effects

Refugees International | Posted October 5, 2009 | World

Read More: Islamabad, Islamabad Wfp, Pakistan, Pakistan Un, Un, Un Pakistan, Wfp, Wfp Pakistan, World Food Program

By Kristele Younes

ISLAMABAD -- The mandate of the UN World Food Program (WFP) is to feed the hungry and the poor. It is an agency which only has one purpose --- to help the needy. That did not protect its staff from the wrath of Pakistani militants, one of...

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Bloomberg Donates $65M to Needy Campaign Consultants

Jarrett Murphy | Posted October 5, 2009 | New York

Read More: 2009 New York City Mayoral Election, Anthony Weiner, Bill Thompson, Campaign Finance, Democracy, Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Term Limits, Wealth, William Thompson

Who knew that when Mike Bloomberg's campaign aides last year threatened to spend $80 million on his re-election run, they were playing low ball?

A year to the day after the mayor announced that he was going to seek to overturn term limits to allow him to pursue a...

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Svengali returns

Yvette Kantrow | Posted October 5, 2009 | Media

Read More: Abbot Laboratories, Affiliated Computer Services Inc., Bruce Wasserstein, Cadbury, David Weidner, Financial TImes, Ft, Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft Foods, Lazard, M&A;, Media, Solvay SA, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, Wsj, Xerox-Corp

So here, in a nutshell, is what we've learned from reading deal coverage of late: M&A; is back! Lots of companies, including many we've actually heard of -- Dell! Disney! Kraft! Xerox! -- have announced deals over the past few weeks. This is good. It means CEOs are feeling more...

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Psychology Holy Wars

Dr. John Grohol | Posted October 5, 2009 | Living

Read More: Clincal Work, Finding a Pyschologist, Finding a Therapist, Graduate, Health Care, Health Insurance, Medical Research, Psychologist, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Therapy, Training

It's bad enough that when a person has a problem in their lives, they're not quite sure who to turn to. More often than not, when that problem is of the mental health variety, they turn to their primary care doctor. That physician will then evaluate the concern in the...

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The Questions All Americans Should ask About Afghanistan

Jon Soltz | Posted October 5, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Al Qaeda, Hamid Karzai, Obama Afghanistan, Politics, President Obama, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Terrorism, War On Terror, Warwire

If there's one thing that the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll tells us, it's that when the President outlines a good policy and speaks directly to the American people about it, he can connect. So, it's not a surprise that after a summer where the President was pretty quiet...

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted October 5, 2009 | Media

Read More: Sam Tanhenhaus, The Death Of Conservatism

Sam Tanenhaus, a senior editor for the New York Times, has written a useful book about modern conservatism and its discontents. It is a short intellectual history tracing the pedigree of ideas that have informed conservative (and liberal) thought over the past couple of centuries focusing mainly on the last...

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Meeting our Metropolitan Challenge

Dr. Judith Rodin | Posted October 5, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Cities, Department Of Housing And Urban Development, Rockefeller Foundation, Urbanization, World Habitat Day

At the United Nations General Assembly this month, President Obama called on each of the world's countries to shoulder its share of responsibility for a "global response to global challenges." Few of these challenges are more daunting or imbued with possibility than the global demographic shift taking place in metropolitan...

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Arms trade must be regulated - Crucial month at the UN

Louis Belanger | Posted October 5, 2009 | World

Read More: Arms Control, Negotiation, Oxfam, United Nations

This is by Anna Macdonald, a colleague from Oxfam who is in New York this month pushing governments to officially launch negotiations for a potential Arms Trade Treaty. Oxfam is also publishing a report this week showing the urgency to have a treaty that regulates arms trade.

Good things...

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Does a Botched Execution Constitute Double Jeopardy?

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted October 5, 2009 |

Read More: Botched Executions, Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Death Penalty, Executions, Romell Broom

When I hear that a man has raped and murdered a young child, terrorists have killed innocent women and children, a store keeper dies during a petty robbery, a man has kidnapped and repeatedly raped a teenage girl or a political leader has committed mass genocide, I want the perpetrators...

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Separating the Journalism Baby from the Newspaper Bathwater

Rob Kall | Posted October 5, 2009 | Media

Read More: Bailout Journalism Industry, Bailout Newspapers, Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Death Of Newspapers, Investigative Journalism, Journalism, Media, Newspapers

Newspapers are dying. Let them. There may have been people who wanted to rescue the buggy whip industry. But they were misguided. It was transportation they really cared about. We need to initiate dynamic, bottom-up approaches to support the ailing field of Journalism, not newspapers.

The writing is on the...

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Standing with Miss America 1958

Trish Kinney | Posted October 5, 2009 | Living

Read More: Child Sexual Abuse, Colorado, Denver, Incest, Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America, Sexual Abuse

She still carries herself with that trademark Miss America posture that ironically helped her win the crown as America's ideal young woman in 1958. What America didn't know was that the ramrod straight carriage was a result of an omnipresent self-protective tension throughout her body, a response to her...

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Thanks to Operation Gatekeeper, Death Toll Increases to Over 5,000

Mary Ann West | Posted October 5, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Border Fence, Border Wall, Illegal Immigration, Immigration, Immigration Reform, Minutemen, Nafta

With numbing regularity news bulletins flash regarding groups or individuals suffering severe injuries, snake bites, or dying in the remote deserts or mountains along the 800 mile "Wall" as they attempt to cross the border between Mexico and the USA. In the 24/7 news cycle, this blip quickly fades...

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Say No to Backroom Deals and Payoffs - Let the Workers Vote

Bruce Raynor | Posted October 5, 2009 | Politics

Read More: John Wilhelm, Labor, St. Louis, Unions, Unite Here, Workers, Workers United

Dear Friend of Workers: Right now, the democratic vote of workers all over St. Louis is being overruled by a backroom deal orchestrated by UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm. Worse, a Local 74 official reported that Wilhelm offered him tens of thousands of dollars to hijack the Local and return...

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The Future of Publishing Isn't Rocket Science (It's Sustainability)

Makenna Goodman | Posted October 5, 2009 | Books

Read More: Book Publishing, Books, Chelsea Green, Farming, Future Of Publishing, Publishing, Publishing Industry, Sustainable Business, Vermont

One year ago, I did what many New Yorkers only dream about. During the most historic presidential inauguration and election of my lifetime, in the throes of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, at the emotional precipice of my mid-twenties, from the mean streets of New York City...

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