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Studs Terkel's FBI File Unearthed, With A Few Surprises

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 11.16.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Long before the FBI identified him as a suspected communist and spent decades watching him and talking to confidential informants abou...

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The Worst Bosses Of All Time (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

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Most of us have experienced the dumb boss, the arrogant boss, the mean boss. But, as the accompanying collection of famous business tyrants illustrate...

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My Morning Ritual

Steven Weber | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

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The last several months have highlighted, more than any time I can remember, the confluence of commerce and politics, loss of faith in government, and widespread acceptance of cartoon scenarios.

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6 'Facts' About Historic Figures (Their Enemies Made Up)

Cracked.com | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy

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The truth is like Silly Putty: you can stretch it, mold it and use it to destroy someone's life. Just ask anyone who's ever run a nasty smear campaig...

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Exclusive Interview With Geoffrey Nunberg, On The Years Of Talking Dangerously

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.20.2009 | Media

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Epithets like "socialist" and "fascist" enable people on the right to bond with each other and -- though they may not acknowledge it -- to alienate everybody else.

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Jack Valenti: FBI Investigated Top LBJ Aide's Sexuality

Washington Post | Joe Stephens | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics

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When Beltway insider Jack Valenti died two years ago at age 85, he was playing the role of intermediary between Washington and Hollywood as the theatr...

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J Edgar Hoover Planned Mass Jailings, Suspension Of Habeus Corpus

New York Times | Tim Weiner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas c...

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Nixon, Hoover Bashed Justices In '71 Phone Call

Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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President Richard Nixon described the Supreme Court's June 1971 Pentagon Papers decision as "unbelievable" and "stinking," and vowed "to change that c...

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