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Politico: How Obama plays media like a fiddle
In early November, Barack Obama was one sad sack of a president â his agenda repudiated by midterm voters, his political judgment scorned by commentators, his future darkened by a growing belief he might be a one-time president. In early February, Obama is master of the moment.

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What will AOL-Huffington Post merger mean?
Internet provider AOL is to buy news and blog website The Huffington Post for $315 million, the latest in a long line of innovative start-ups snapped up by established big-name firms.

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Learn about Africa, Elvis at Academy

Lena Nyman, Star of ‘I Am Curious’ Films, Is Dead at 66
Ms. Nyman’s performance in the sexually explicit movie “I Am Curious (Yellow)” raised the hackles of censors in the 1960s and helped turn the film into a box office bonanza.

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Learn about Africa, Elvis at Academy
LAS CRUCES – Fourteen years ago, a group of retired New Mexico State University faculty members founded the Academy for Learning in Retirement, a forum for lifelong learning and educational exploration.

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Dr. Davis Talks About Household Cleaning

www.environmentalhealthtrust.org Devra L. Davis, PhD, MPH Designated a National Book Award Finalist for When Smoke Ran Like Water (2002, Basic Books), Devra Davis is Director of the world’s first Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public Health. Her recent book, The Secret History of the War on Cancer, was a top pick by Newsweek and is being used at major schools of public health, including Harvard, Emory, and Tulane University. The multidisciplinary Center for Environmental Oncology includes experts in medicine, basic research, engineering and public policy, who will develop cutting-edge studies to identify the causes of cancer and propose policies to reduce the risks of the disease.Dr. Davis’s career has spanned all areas of academia, public policy, and scientific research. President Clinton appointed the Honorable Dr. Davis to the newly established Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, (1994-99) an independent executive branch agency that investigates, prevents, and mitigates chemical accidents. As the former Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, she has counseled leading officials in the United States, United Nations, World Health Organization, and World Bank. She also served as a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the group awarded the Nobel …

Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald Music and lyrics ©1976 by Gordon Lightfoot The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they called “Gitche Gumee.” The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy. With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty, that good ship and true was a bone to be chewed when the “Gales of November” came early. The ship was the pride of the American side coming back from some mill in Wisconsin. As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most with a crew and good captain well seasoned, concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms when they left fully loaded for Cleveland. And later that night when the ship’s bell rang, could it be the north wind they’d been feelin’? The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound and a wave broke over the railing. And ev’ry man knew, as the captain did too ’twas the witch of November come stealin’. The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait when the Gales of November came slashin’. When afternoon came it was freezin’ rain in the face of a hurricane west wind. When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin’. “Fellas, it’s too rough t’feed ya.” At seven PM a main hatchway caved in; he said, (*2010 lyric change: At 7 pm, it grew dark, it was then he said,) “Fellas, it’s bin good t’know ya!” The captain wired in he had water comin’ in and the good ship and crew was in peril. And later that night when ‘is …

7 Things: Ian Somerhalder

The ‘Vampire Diaries’ and ‘Lost’ star on making up for a blown ‘True Blood’ audition, the benefits of playing an evil immortal, and why memorizing lines while driving may not be such a bad thing.

2009 Oscar Roundtable: ‘Lucky Accidents Happened Every Other Second’

1/22/09: NEWSWEEK’s annual Oscar Roundtable with Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Sally Hawkins, Frank Langella, Brad Pitt and Mickey Rourke.

S. Bend mayor dismisses Newsweek ‘dying city’ report

City Different Finds Its Match
Study finds rich, yet violent Santa Fe is similar to Fairbanks, Alaska The City Different’s 400-year history is a source of pride for some. So is its art scene. Newsweek lauded Santa Fe recently for its water conservation efforts. Just this month The Advocate . . .

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S. Bend mayor dismisses Newsweek ‘dying city’ report
You will be redirected to the page you want to view in seconds. Firefighters use ladder trucks to contain blaze at 10th and Pennsylvania streets about 11:15 p.m.

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Bernanke in Denial 2005-2007

Bernanke telling us not to worry about housing, mortgages, or car companies in the years before the recession, like denying a train wreck that is coming down the tracks. Bernanke was chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, and now as chairman of the Federal Reserve, he’s the fourth most powerful person in the world according to Newsweek.

Hitchens – The Morals of an Atheist 1 0f 2

sorry for sync issues,it was in the original THE MORALS OF AN ATHEIST Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is the author of more than ten books, including, most recently, God…alles » THE MORALS OF AN ATHEIST Christopher Hitchens Christopher Hitchens is the author of more than ten books, including, most recently, God Is Not Great — How Religion Poisons Everything. He is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and has written prolifically for American and English periodicals, including the Nation, the London Review of Books, Granta, Harper’s, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, New Left Review, Slate, the New York Review of Books, Newsweek International, the Times Literary Supplement, the Atlantic and the Washington Post. He is also a regular television and radio commentator. If there is no God—no ground of being—if human beings represent nothing more than temporary swarms of atoms, then what sense does it make even to speak of “right” and “wrong”?” Where does morality come from? Reflecting on what he calls “the appalling insinuation that I would not know right from wrong if I was not supernaturally guided,….” Christopher Hitchens takes on the likes of Jonathan Swift, CS Lewis, and Charles Darwin in making his case for atheism.

Christopher Hitchens on Charlie Rose 25-Feb-04 (Part 1)

(Part 1 of 3) A conversation with author Christopher Hitchens of “Vanity Fair”, Jon Meacham of “Newsweek”, David Denby of “The New Yorker” and David Sterritt, film critic of “The Christian Science Monitor”, about Mel Gibson’s controversial film “The Passion of the Christ”. Part 2: www.youtube.com Part 3: www.youtube.com Please let me know if you like the Christopher Hitchens videos. Thanks! – BerkeleyGuy