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Inside The Search For Missing Marines

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 05.25.2012

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Award-winning filmmaker Steven C. Barber ("Return To Tarawa") has a new documentary making its debut this Memorial Day. "Until They Are Home" focuses ...

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MIA Vietnam Soldier Laid To Rest 36 Years After Disappearance

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 05.25.2012

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Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Every Memorial Day, I take out a scrapbook my grandmother made over 40 years ago. Each page is filled with photographs of young men I've never met. Under every face is the exhortation: WHERE IS HE? My uncle's face is on page three.

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Bonnaroo Flashbacks: Crowd-Surfing with Crystal Castles, Phoenix + M.I.A., Florence, David Byrne, Erykah Badu, Neon Indian, MGMT (VIDEOS)

Michael Vazquez | Posted 05.17.2012

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Michael Vazquez

Exactly three weeks from my favorite festival, herewith, a scrapbook of old clips and thoughts from Bonnaroos past.

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Anderson Cooper, MIA 's Lively Twitter Debate

Posted 03.15.2012

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Anderson Cooper and rapper MIA had a long exchange over Twitter on Wednesday night after MIA accused Cooper of calling her a terrorist. Capital Ne...

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What MIA Is Doing About Sex Trafficking

The Miami Herald | BY MONIQUE O. MADAN | Posted 03.01.2012

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Employees at Miami International Airport were trained Thursday to identify and respond to children who are being sexually exploited....

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WATCH: Florida Grand Opera Bursts Into Song At Airport

Posted 05.01.2012

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Let's face it: Miami is pretty much the last place anyone expects to see a random act of kindness, much less one of culture that doesn't involve a cov...

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Madonna Slams M.I.A. Over 'Teenager' Move

Posted 02.10.2012

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When something happens at the Super Bowl halftime show, it never seems to go away (paging Janet Jackson). Madonna has taken to the airwaves to exp...

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From M.I.A. to Susan G. Komen: How to Be Outraged in America

Mark Morford | Posted 04.09.2012

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Mark Morford

What flavor of revolt and indignation do you prefer as we dance like drunken angels into the wilds of 2012? Choose wisely, and you can become a full and informed participant in the culture. Choose poorly, and the world is joyless as bible study in Rick Santorum's shame dungeon.

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M.I.A.'s Predictable Tour Rider Is Predictably Revealed

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 02.09.2012

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Another day after the Superbowl, another M.I.A. "story." This time it's from The Smoking Gun, who did their duty post-sorta incident and dug up the of...

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Music Makes the People Come Together

Jeffrey Gibson | Posted 04.07.2012

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Jeffrey Gibson

I have been considering what to write about for my very first blog entry for The Huffington Post, going about my days waiting for a moment of ins...

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Four Defenses of M.I.A.'s Middle Finger

Danny Groner | Posted 04.08.2012

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Danny Groner

During the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday night, M.I.A. gave the finger to the hundred million fans watching around the world. It didn't last very long, but in the days since the incident, practically everyone except for the singer herself has apologized.

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Top 5 Sports Stories

Len Berman | Posted 04.08.2012

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Len Berman

Commissioner Roger Goodell has come around to the fans' way of thinking. There's got to be something better than the Pro Bowl. He said the league is thinking about getting rid of it.

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M.I.A.'s Only Malfunction Was Us

Ann Brenoff | Posted 04.07.2012

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Ann Brenoff

Is tossing out a cuss word just an easy way to show the world you really aren't a baby anymore? Or is it an insidious slippery slope on which a child will fall head first into a life of drugs and crime unless you nip the first F-word in the butt?

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The Dangers Of Co-Opting Cool

www.spinner.com | Posted 02.06.2012

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As the media, and presumably a few prudes, get all a-twitter about M.I.A.'s flipped middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime show, it's easy to fo...

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What Nicki Minaj Can Learn From M.I.A.'s Middle Finger

Kia Makarechi | Posted 04.07.2012

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Kia Makarechi

If Minaj wants to achieve real staying power, she needs to slow down to M.I.A.'s pace. Every year or so, the London-born singer does something that's provocative enough to gain exposure but not obnoxious enough to alienate her fans.

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NFL, NBC Trade Barbs Over M.I.A.'s Middle Finger

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 04.07.2012

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NEW YORK — Less than a second stood between British singer M.I.A. giving the finger to 114 million people watching the Super Bowl halftime show ...

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What Do You Wish Madonna Had Done Differently?

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 04.07.2012

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Jessica Pearce Rotondi

What, if anything, do you wish Madonna had done differently?

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PHOTOS: Super Bowl Halftime Spectacular!

Huffington Post | Julee Wilson | Posted 04.06.2012

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The Super Bowl halftime show was amazing. But with Madonna as the headliner--was there ever really a doubt? The 53-year-old, who was decked out in ...

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M.I.A. Flashes Middle Finger During Halftime Show

AP | Posted 04.06.2012

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By David Bauder, The Associated Press For all the pomp and excess of Madonna's Super Bowl halftime extravaganza a single extended middle finger by ...

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M.I.A Defies Death In "Bad Girls" Video

Posted 02.03.2012

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Fresh off the heels of releasing her latest single from her forthcoming album, Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam, aka M.I.A., has premiered the video for "...

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Madonna, Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. At Superbowl XLVI

Jessica Pearce Rotondi | Posted 04.02.2012

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Jessica Pearce Rotondi

Not since Beyonce donned a metal tutu and launched into "If I were A Boy" and an Alanis Morrisette cover in her 2010 Grammys performance have we looked forward to an act this much.

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MIA Says Hello

The Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 01.31.2012

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Here's an earworm for your morning: a kinda new single from MIA called "Bad Girls." It appeared in rougher form on the last day of 2010 as part of "Vi...

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LMFAO And Cee Lo Green: Madonna's New Right Hand Guys?

Posted 01.30.2012

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Her album M.D.N.A. is out in March, she won a Golden Globe for her ballad "Masterpiece" featured in her directorial debut "W.E.," and she's performing...

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Photos From "True Hip-Hop"

Mike Schreiber | Posted 01.10.2012

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Mike Schreiber

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Congress Is Missing in Action for the POWs/MIAs

Ralph Levenberg | Posted 11.16.2011

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Ralph Levenberg

It is time for Japan's companies to apologize to the POWs and establish a program of remembrance. Our blood and despair helped sustain them. I do not want compensation. I simply ask for a genuine apology and that my presence be remembered.

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