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Still?  Years ago recall being told about a newly retired supervisor of a small support staff unit who by then…
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Not according to his good friend Oliver Sacks I sometimes joined the Williamses in the summer at Lake Tahoe. I…
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Not a trivial observation: ...for all her glass-ceiling breaking she did almost nothing to promote or mentor other woman comics…
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What an odd comparison.  Would be like putting Groucho Marx and Jack E. Leonard in the same category.  Possibly worse…
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Can't recall ever enjoying her comedic edge.  Too mean spirited for my funny bone. Interesting to note that she and…
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This says it best:
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WAPO -- the only original report source -- was careful not to say that the details of plea deal had…
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Wasn't the MH17 report due to be released about now?  (A few of us aren't forgetting.)  Coincidence that instead there's…
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So many false positives that it's essentially a very expensive and worthless exercise.  Except for the individuals and corporations making…
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Felt better thinking that this loon went away a decade ago.  Didn't miss him at all.  Doubt even the 27%…
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Most difficult full year of courses I ever took.  Only about a third of us limped through to the finish.…
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James Foley was embedded with a US military unit early in his short journalism career.  Captured and later released in…
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Not accepting the plea offer seems really dumb now, but we don't know a) the details of the offer and…
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More likely that freelance journalists were targeted as covert US operatives by various insurgent groups.
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OTC Plan B isn't inexpensive and at $35 to $60 is a barrier for many women, particularly young women.  And…
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Among elite US policymakers is more an ideological fealty than nationalism or ignorance of other cultures.  For example, Applebaum had…
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I phrased that poorly.  Am sure it plays well in Estonia.  Presenting the USian standard of living as result of…
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Other than way over-valuing the SAT as a measure of merit (iirc high school grades are more predictive of college…
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Obama in Estonia ... ...They can look at Afghanistan, where our forces have sacrificed together to keep us safe --…
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They had to minimize the impulse for direct revenge wrt the beheading of Daniel Pearl because it took place in…
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