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O, Miami Founder: Local Brain-Drain Over?

The Huffington Post | Amanda McCorquodale | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Miami Arts, Miami Poetry, Miami Literary Scene, P. Scott Cunningham, My Miami, A, Poetry Festival, University of Wynwood, Mimi Culture, Miami Around Town, Miami News, Nevin Shapiro Miami, Best of Miami, Miami News

P. Scott Cunningham is dead-set on promoting literary arts in Miami. And that's no easy task in a city known more for its boobs and bass than its book...

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WATCH: Home Run-Saving Catch By Cardinals Outfielder

Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Allen Craig, Cardinals, Video, A, Rangers, World Series, World Series Game 7, Allen Craig Catch, St. Louis Cardinals, Game 7, Texas Rangers, 2011 World Series, Nelson Cruz, Sports News

The Cardinals seized control of Game 7 of the 2011 World Series in the bottom of the fifth, stretching a 3-2 lead to a 5-2 margin by way of walks, hit...

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Ai Weiwei Talks Detention With NY Times

nytimes.com | KEITH BRADSHER | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: A, Human Rights, Twitter, Beijing, Dissident, Freedom of Expression, Protest, New York Times, Chinese Art, Tax Evasion, Ai Weiwei, China, Torture, Arts News

HONG KONG -- Ai Weiwei, the prominent Chinese artist and dissident, said Friday that he had been kept in a tiny room throughout his nearly three-month...

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Why War Is Never Really Rational

Scott Atran | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: US Libya War, A, Libya No Fly Zone, Obama Libya, War, Libya Protests, Libya War, Politics News
Scott Atran

The inconsistency between war as a moral imperative versus political policy runs way wider and deeper than the Libya conflict. It goes to the heart of human nature and the character of society. For despite the popular delusion that war is primarily a matter of political strategy and pragmatic execution, it almost never is. Squaring the circle of war and politics, morality and material interests, is not just Obama's or America's quandary, it is a species-wide dilemma that results from wanting to believe that we humans are fundamentally rational beings, when in fact David Hume was right to say that "Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions."

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Samuel Sevian, 9, Becomes Youngest US Chess 'Master'

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Youngest Chess Master, Samuel Sevian, A, Samuel Sevian Chess, Samuel Sevian Chess Master, Los Angeles News

SAN FRANCISCO — A 9-year-old California boy has become the youngest-ever chess "master" in the United States. Samuel Sevian, of Santa Clara, ea...

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Oil Companies Allowed To Tap City Fire Hydrants In Water-Strapped Cheyenne, Wyoming

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A, Laramie County Control Area, Oil Companies, Niobrara Shale, Cheyenne Wyoming, Denver News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The same water flowing from faucets and shower heads in Cheyenne homes is being used for drilling oil wells. Two companies tha...

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Scott Ashjian, Nevada Tea Party Senate Candidate,

AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Bad Check, Senate, A, Asphalt, Jon-Scott-Ashjian, Scott Ashjian, Harry Reid, Nevada, Bad Checks, Democrats, Tea Party, Las Vegas, Republicans, Politics News

LAS VEGAS — A Nevada asphalt contractor who faces a legal challenge to his Tea Party of Nevada candidacy for U.S. Senate was hit Friday with felony ...

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Gay Marriage: The Tide is Turning And There's No Going Back

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Judge Vaughn Walker, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, U.S. District Court, U.S. Supreme Court, A, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Peter Dreier

All trends regarding public sentiment and views towards the LGBT community indicate that the time when conservatives can use same-sex marriage as a "wedge" issue is coming to an end.

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The World Court's Decision on Kosovo Reinforces Georgia's Case

Payam Akhavan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A, South Ossetia, Georgia, Kosovo, International Court of Justice, World News
Payam Akhavan

Georgia's case that victims of ethnic cleansing have an undeniable right to return to their homes and villages and that Russia's illegal occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia must end has now been strengthened.

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A&F Quarterly: A Sneak Peak At Abercrombie's Relaunched Mag

StyleList.com | Erin Donnelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A, Fashion, Abercrombie Magazine, Abercrombie, Style News

The first issue since the magazine was dropped in 2003 (we're still wearing black armbands) will be "sexy, playful, and provocative -- it's everything...

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A&F Quarterly: Abercrombie Bringing Back Controversial Magazine (PHOTO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Abercrombie & Fitch is bringing its A&F Quarterly back to US stores, Portfolio reports. First launched in 1997, the mix of articles and partially-nude...

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Apple Tablet Ship Date: Device To Ship In March

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apple Tablet, A, Apple Tablet Launch Date, Apple Tablet Ship, Apple Tablet Rumors, Apple Tablet Launch, Technology News

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is planning to ship a tablet device in March, following the unveiling of the new device in January. Apple...

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Japan's Future First Lady: Michelle Obama And I Are Very Similar

AFP | Miwa Suzuki | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A, Miyuki Hatoyama, Michelle Oba, Style News

"I think she is so natural and has a kind of sensibility similar to mine. If I can have the chance to meet her, I would look forward to it," Miyuki sa...

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Patrick Swayze's TV Show Finishes With Uncertain Future

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A, The Beast, Patrick Swayze, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Heading into its home stretch, A&E's drama "The Beast" will resolve several questions that have dogged freewheeling FBI agent Charles...

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A Experts' Roundtable on Zimbabwe

Charlie Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Chenjerai Hove, A, Morgan Tsvangarai Zimbabwe, Philip Gourevich, Afric, Zimbabwe Elections, Politics News
Charlie Rose

I recently spoke with four people who know Zimbabwe, which has been gripped in a power struggle. 2008-07-02-zimbabpull.jpg

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