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The Art Of Sexting

Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Sexts, Video, The New Yorker, Twitter, Patricia Lockwood, Joke Poems, The Awl, Patricia Lockwood Sext, Lockwood Sext, Poetry, Arts News

Once the love letter dominated the scene for writing your lover. But these days, nothing gets the blood pumping like a good sext. Like "Come over baby...

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Why I Didn't Get My Sister a Gift -- Yet

Lori Fradkin | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Holiday, Holiday Giving, Giving Spirit, Gifts Year Round, The Awl, Sibling Gifts, Dave Bry, Women News

My sister and I used to exchange gifts on our birthdays and during Hanukkah, but last year, I offered up a new idea: What if we just sent each other two gifts a year -- at any time?

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A Field Guide To Your Office Nemesis

The Awl.com | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Office Nemesis, The Awl, Evil Coworker, Office Humor, The Awl Office Nemesis, Coworkers, A Field Guide to Your Office Nemesis, Comedy News

97% of Americans have an office nemesis. Here is your illustrated guide to the statistics behind the phenomenon....

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Bank Of America Nabs Malcolm Gladwell To Educate Small Business Owners

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Small Business, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, The Awl, Bank of America, Citibank, Entrepreneurs, Foreclosure, Malcolm Gladwell, Small Business Lending, Business News

Struggling small businesses need not fear any longer: Malcolm Gladwell is on the way, sponsored by Bank of America. Gladwell, the bestselling write...

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How The For-Profit College Can Destroy Your Life

The Awl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Awl, How the for-Profit College Can Destroy Your Life, For-Rofit Colleges, University of Phoenix, For-Profit Colleges, College News

According to Frank Donoghue's book, The Last Professors, fully one-third of American two- and four-year colleges were for-profit by 2003. The Universi...

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Harvard Prof Defends Teaching 'The Wire'

The Awl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Awl, The Wire, The Northeast, Harvard University, Harvard, Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard Kennedy School, William Julius Wilson, College News

"The Wire" is a fictional television show that many people really liked and that many people think is a very revealing take on The Way We Live in Urba...

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What's the Difference Between e-Essays and Blog Posts?

Alex Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Awl, Paul Krugman, Chuck Klosterman, Mashable, Blogs, Publishing, Book Publishing, Kindle, Books, Essays, Books News

The typical Klosterman release is a bundle of 18 or so essays. When this type of content is no longer bundled, I have trouble differentiating it from really long blog posts.

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BLOG WATCH> The Awl Anticicpates Burlesque, The Whitney, And Chris Cooper

The Awl | Awl Staff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steven Soderbergh, The Kitchen, The Whitney Museum, The Awl, Burlesque, Documentaries, Colin Firth, Chris Cooper, Blog-Watch, Greg Dulli, Arts News

The Anticipation List... (by The Awl Staff) • Ritter, Dene, Voss: it just opened! • And Everything Is Going Fine: Steven Soderbergh's documentar...

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Ten Things That Did Not Suck About The Media In 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

It's New Year's Eve, that time of year when you toss aside your better instincts and succumb to America's need for Contemplative Listicles that Explai...

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Los Angeles Free Clinic Offers Portrait Of Today's Dysfunctional Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Awl, Health Care Reform, Eat the Press, Media News

While the media is busy at assaying the ever-shifting political calculus over health care -- who's up, who's down? -- it's worth remembering that actu...

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Scritti Politti: May 6, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swine Flu, Polling, Afghanistan, Sonia Sotomayor, The Awl, Secession, Souter Replacement, Forbes Magazine, Souter, Eat the Press, Media News

AFP has the story on the effects of the swine flu on the nation of Afghanistan, where officials have locked up the country's only pig for the time bei...

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Scritti Politti: April 21, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barack Obama, New York Magazine, Dick Cheney, The Awl, Financial Crisis, The Washington Independent, Torture Memos, Torture, Eat the Press, Media News

Over at Foreign Policy's Shadow Government blog, there's a thoughtful post up from Philip Zelikow - no bleeding heart, he - about torture. The whole ...

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