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A Tax for Your Thoughts...

Maria Paravantes | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: World Economy, Global Economy, Greece Debt, Greece, Greece Debt Crisis, Global Financial Crisis, Greece Economy, Greek Debt Crisis, Animal Farm, Greek Debt, World News

We've passed the audition and are now holding starring roles in Animal Farm Takes Greece -- a remake of George Orwell's foretelling allegorical tale penned 67 years ago!

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'Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape'

Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Unicorn, Bergamot Station, War on Terror, Charlotta Westergren, Durer, Animal Farm, Realism, Los Angeles Art Exhibitions, Video, Patrick Painter, Raft of the Medusa, Gericault, Flemish Painting, Slidepollajax, Female Artists, Arts News

The title of Charlotta Westergren's new exhibition is "SERE: Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape." SERE is a military program that originated to tra...

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WATCH: The 20 Most Innovative Animated Films

Posted 12.30.2011

Animation has long experienced the stigma that it is a medium designed for children, yet examples can be seen that defy this classification. Many ...

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Behind The Snarking About OWS

Jim Sleeper | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Financial TImes, Martin Wolf, Zuccotti Park, Animal Farm, George Orwell, New York Magazine, Ows, Media News

Republican presidential debates, and even "liberal" magazines' online comment threads, are drawing hundreds eager to rail at clueless dissenters, especially if they can catch them bickering with one another.

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Tonally Inappropriate Book Covers

flavorwire.com | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: William Golding, J.D. Salinger, Book Covers, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Lord of the Flies, David Foster Wallace, Gone With the Wind, David Copperfield, All Quiet on the Western Front, Infinite Jest, Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, Books News

Everyone knows that you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but um, we kind of do it all the time. In fact, half the fun of that anachroni...

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Huffpost Readers' Picks: What Book From Childhood Can't You Forget? (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.16.2011

Most of us remember that time in our childhood when we picked up a book that we just couldn't put down. Our imaginations were such that it transported...

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Vocation Matriculation: The Case For Trade Education In High School

Ilana Garon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Career and Technical Education, George Orwell, Education Reform, School Reform, Obama State of the Union, Trade School, Animal Farm, State of the Union, Obama Reform, Education News

Although education is certainly a factor in paving the road to economic recovery, college is not the right path for everyone.

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The Reform Agenda -- Red Pills, Blue Agendas and the Neo-Johnsons

Edward Headington | Posted 05.25.2011

You do not have to have read George Orwell to know that one of the most abused words in the English language is "reform." It is almost as bad as our penchant for reviving old labels with the word "neo."

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Orwell, Bradbury, Stephen King And More

io9.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Science fiction's greatest authors have brilliant ideas, storytelling mojo... and plenty of stubbornness. Many of the field's greatest writers were bu...

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9 Best Science Fiction Novels For Young Adults Besides 'Mockingjay' (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ya, Best Books, Wrinkle in Time, Young Adult Novels, The Lottery, Suzanne Collins, Animal Farm, Einstein, Sci-Fi Ya, Bradbury, Vonnegut, Ya Novels, Mockingjay Hungergames, HUnger Games, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Mockingjay, Slidepollajax, Books News

In case you haven't heard, "Mockingjay," the third and final installment in Suzanne Collins' super-smash "Hunger Games" series, hit bookstores this Tu...

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George Orwell And The Tea Party: Is The Conservative Movement Misappropriating Orwell?

The Millions | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1984, Tea Party Movement, Tea Party, Animal Farm, Books, George Orwell Tea Party, George Orwell, Books News

George Orwell never thought that his work would outlive him by much. After all, he considered himself "a sort of pamphleteer" rather than a genuine no...

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Elton John Working On Musical Of Orwell's 'Animal Farm'

The Guardian | Sean Michaels | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Lion King, Orwell, Broadway, Musicals, Animal Farm, George Orwell, Elton John, Books News

Sir Elton John is reportedly working on a stage adaptation of Animal Farm, teaming up with the writer of Billy Elliot, for a musical version of Georg...

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Brown Has the Experience. Does He Have the Ganas?

Edward Headington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Meg Whitman, Rob Stutzman, Animal Farm, Off the Presses, Seema Mehta, Edward Headington, George Orwell, Jerry Brown, Republicans, Jaime Escalante, Democrats, California Governor's Race, Ganas, Los Angeles News

While there should be nothing inevitable about his candidacy, he has the energy and the experience to run a great campaign. Brown just needs to show a little more ganas: will, desire, motivation.

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Talking Animals In Literature: Why Do We Love Them So Much?

The Guardian | Andrew O'Hagan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Wind in the Willows, Animal Farm, Lassie, Talking Animals, Charlotte's Web, Books, Andrew O'Hagan, Watership Down, Books News

From Achilles' horse to Lassie, animals provide moral authority and sympathy in fiction, often giving voice to the silenced and oppressed. Andrew O'Ha...

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Senator Wall Street's Nightmare

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Nepotism, Wall Street, Economy, Graduation Speeches, Hofstra University, Mark Twain, Animal Farm, New York News

In 1905, Mark Twain published the pamphlet King Leopold's Soliloquy, an imaginary defense of imperialism in the Congo in which the King of Belgium adm...

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Pardon the Interruption, But...

Steven Weber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greed, Wall Street, American Greed, Economic Crisis, Corporate Greed, Animal Farm, Business News

America is itself a living example of greed-fueled inefficiency, reflected in its regressive attitudes, unrestrained profiteering and unceasing ignorance of its own mortality.

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My Kindle Ate My Homework

Marc Hershon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1984, I Hate People, Animal Farm, Kindle, Orwell, Amazon, Marc Hershon, Amazon Kindle, Media News

Amazon slapped my sense of ownership and control across the face yesterday when I learned they reached right into the Kindles of anumber of customers and deleted -- irony of ironies -- copies of George Orwell's 1984.

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the daily szep- The Woes of Wall Street

Paul Szep | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Political Cartoon, Humor, The Rich, Money, Political Humor, Economy, Pigs, Cartoon, Animal Farm, Political Cartoons, Home News

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