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EMA's: Introducing the Legacy Award

Kevin George | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Paramount Studios, Walt Disney, Big-Cats, National Geographic, Values, Gorillas, Environment, Walt Disney Company, Environmentalism, Lions, Environmental Media Association, Media, Legacy, Disney, Cheetahs, Debbie Levin, Green News

The Legacy Award celebrates a vision of bringing environmental messages into entertainment -- television, film and music -- to educate and motivate the public.

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Legacy: Loss and Love

Rachael Freed | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Legacy, Loss, Ruth Brin, Love, Legacy-Writing, Ethical Will, The Inner Life, Living News

All of us yearn to be blessed; all of us need to be held securely in the love left so often unexpressed by our families and friends.

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Legacy: A New Vision of Aging

Rachael Freed | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Church of the Brethren, Aging, Dying, Purpose, Writing, Ethical Will, Legacy, Gerotranscendence, Reminiscense, Death, Living News

Older adults are developing new values and new perspectives: redefining self, relationships, and fundamental existential questions like time, space, life, and death.

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Legacy: What About the Value of "Your Stuff"?

Rachael Freed | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Elderly, Values, Giving, Materialism, Family Values, Legacy-Writing, Ethical Will, Legacy, Living News

Ethical wills are about values, not valuables. But what about the category of stuff -- of value or not?

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'Littlest Refusenik' On Kennedy: 'He Saved My Life'

CNN | Elizabeth Cohen | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Legacy, Soviet Russia, Soviet Jews, Leonid Brezhnev, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- She was called "the littlest refusenik," one of the many Soviet Jews denied permission to leave the Soviet Union becaus...

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Your Social Capital: Invest It in Philanthropy

Ron Mirenda | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Good Works, Charity, Social Responsibility, Funding Non-Profits, Funding, Legacy, Social Capital, Donating to Non-Profits, Fundraising, Community-Reinvestment, Making a Difference, Living News

Social capital allows us to invest in the future of society in areas we are passionate about and in those we strongly believe will make a difference in our society.

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The Legacy of Giving: Teens Practice Philanthropy

Rachael Freed | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Generosity, Philanthropy, Legacy, Giving, Family Values, Values, Ethical Will, Living News

People are more open about sex and death than about money, which may be our last taboo. Though challenging, let's look at the relationship of money, values and legacy.

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Pat Buchanan Attacks Affirmative Action And Sonia Sotomayor

Guy T. Saperstein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Pat Buchanan, Discrimination, Bush Legacy, Legacy, Affirmative Action, Sotomayor, Media News

The white-male affirmative action which bozos like George Bush benefited from undermine healthy competition and produce bad results.

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The Real Magic of Michael

Jim Selman | Posted 07.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Jackson, Generation, New York Post, Service, Death, Michael Jackson Death, Legacy, Entertainment News

Michael Jackson's most important gift was that he allowed so many people to love him, to find in their sense of wonder and delight a bit of their own magic.

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Passing on Our Values: The Legacy of Freedom

Rachael Freed | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Alice-Paul, Legacy, Independence Day, Legacy-Writing, Voting Rights, Communication, Freedom, Living News

Our daughters and granddaughters, texting and twittering, can't imagine a world before computers, or television, a world when American women didn't have the freedom to vote.

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Dead At 50 - But His Inspiring Voice Will Live Forever...

Martin Lewis | Posted 07.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Icon, American Hero, Spokesman, Premature Death, Legacy, Inspirational, Heritage, Voice of a Generation, Entertainment News

Rest in peace Billy Mays.

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President Obama's Legacy Letter Blessing His Daughters

Rachael Freed | Posted 07.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Blessing, Legacy, Fathers Day, Barack Obama, Living News

As you honor your father this Father's Day, you can also give him the opportunity to bless you.

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AmazonEncore's First Novel Acquired

Publishers Weekly | Rachel Deahl | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business

Read More: AmazonEncore, Self-Published, Amazon, AmazonEncore Legacy, Legacy, Business News

In its most significant foray into publishing, Amazon has acquired world English rights to a self-published novel by a midwestern teenager called Lega...

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Jack Kemp: Bleeding-Heart Conservative

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, Leadership, Football, Children, Economics, Washington, Common Ground, Conservatism, Congress, Legacy, Black, Bleeding Heart, Republican Jack Kemp, Compassion, Civil Rights, Republican, Conservative, Racism, White, Housing Projects, Housing, Bill Bradley, Political Leader, Development, Poverty, Housing and Urban Development, Partisan, African Americans, Politics News

Kemp was a fervent believer in "supply side economics," which I just as fervently oppose. But you do not have to agree with all of Jack Kemp's economic policies to be impressed and inspired with his life and leadership.

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Exit Stage Right: Cheney Wheels Off to Thunderous Applause

Randall Amster | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: James Bond, Bob Roberts, It's a Wonderful Life, Obama Inauguration, Cheney, Legacy, Batman, Vice President Cheney, Dick Cheney, Dr. Strangelove, Comedy News

Yes folks, that was Dick Cheney, born-again ADA activist and differently-abled former dictator, heading off to an (un)disclosed location for the final time.

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Dr. King's True Legacy: A Lesson for Progressives in the Age of Obama

Kimberle Crenshaw | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Not only must we re-dedicate ourselves to King's civil rights mission along with the world peace mission, we must see the two as being so utterly linked that one cannot exist without the other.

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Lame Legacy

John Feffer | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nobel, Jack Bauer, Bush Legacy, Legacy, 24, Bush, Terrorism, Foreign Policy, War on Terror, George W. Bush, Politics News

With only one week left in what 61% of U.S. historians have called the worst presidency ever, it is time for one last, squirming appraisal of the damage done.

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A New Year and a New Environment

Michael DeJong | Posted 01.28.2009 | Green

Read More: George Bush, Low-Flow Showerheads, Car Pool, Falwell, Fuel-Efficient, Faucet Aerators, Big Tent, Cheney, Bureau of Land Management, Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs, Auld Lang Syne, Legacy, Endangered Species Act, Resolutions, Patriotic, Recycling, The Decider, Compassionate Conservatism, New Year’s Eve, Tap Water, Public Transportation, Environment, Rove, Junior, New Year's Commentary, Green News

Little measures -- recycling, driving a most fuel-efficient car, walking, biking or using public transit, and installing low-flow shower heads -- can make a huge difference.

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Bush's Brain: Karl Rove Goes Mental

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Legacy, Afghanistan, Iraq, Karl Rove, Legacy, War, Bush, Rove Partisan, Partisanship, Barack Obama, Politics News

Rove and his colleagues will try to use sleight of hand, smoke and mirrors and outright lies to get us to forget the horrors of the past eight years.

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Friday Talking Points [57] -- End Of Prohibition 75th Anniversary Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Weapons Inspectors, Marie Antoinette, Pardon, Autoworkers, Feinstein, Marijuana, Al Franken, Barney Frank, Medical Marijuana, Legacy, Difi, Prohibition, Jerrold Nadler, Bush Legacy, Northern Ireland, Midnight Regulations, Bailout, Norm Coleman, Midotw, Treasury, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Ireland, Health Care, Reid, Detroit, Cash Room, 2700 Year Old, Army Field Manual, Democrat, Congress, 21st Amendment, Right Wing, Visitors Center, Minnesota, Lie, Democrats, Santa, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, The Troubles, Liquor, Michael Medved, Constitution, Mddotw, Harry Reid, Recount, Hillary Clinton, Utah, Post-Partisan Depression, Capitol, Secretary of State, Senate, Grandstanding, Amendment, Gop, Senator, Obama, Democratic, Dianne Feinstein, Iraq, Anniversary, Drink, Bush, Republican, Paulson, Clinton, Charlie Gibson, Schedule I, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Schedule II, Wmd, House, Frank, Franken, Post-Partisan, 2008 Election, Tourists, Talk Radio, Chris Weigant, Smell, Prohibition Repeal, Stink, Torture, Medved, Politics News

Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...

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The Bush Legacy: Haunted By Mistakes

Markus Ziener | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Iraq, Crisis, Legacy, Bush, Bush Legacy, George Bush Legacy, Politics News

Bush's presidency may someday be seen in a milder light, because in the last two years of his administration, he was able to pull off an inconspicuous, but in many ways fundamental, change of course.

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Bush Moves to Plan B

Laura Carlsen | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Legacy, Bush, Foreign Policy, Latin America, George Bush, Economy, Plan A, Plan B, Bush Legacy, Politics News

Plan B was the legacy plan, designed to lock in as many Bush policies as possible before losing the presidency to the Democrats.

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Bush Tumbles in CBS News Poll: When 43 Hits 22

Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: CBS News Poll, Polls, George Bush, 22 Percent, Legacy, Bush Low Approval Ratings, George W. Bush, Political Poem, Politics News

"The [president's] 70 percent disapproval rating is higher than any measured since Gallup began asking about presidential job approval in 1938."

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Bill Clinton, Middle East Envoy?

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Bill Clinton, Turkey, Running Mate, Palestine, Iraq, 2008 Elections, Legacy, Campaign, 08, Peace, 2008 Election, Palestinians, Election, Barack Obama, 08 Election, Iran, Vp, Elections, 08 Campaign, Clinton, 2008, Envoy, Middle East, Hillary, 2008 Presidential Race, Israel, 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Statesman, Politics News

Politically, this would give both the Clintons a personal stake in the race, and would go a long way towards healing the wounds inflicted in the primaries on both sides.

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Bush SOTU: Bin Laden Mentioned Once, Pakistan Twice

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Poverty, Pakistan, Missing Words, Legacy, Bush, September 11, Change, Al Qaida, Bin Laden, Freedom, Katrina, Sotu, Bhutto, President Bush, State of the Union, Politics News

Sometimes, during a speech, what is left unsaid is more telling than the words uttered. This was certainly true during Monday night's State of the Uni...

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