May 31, 2012

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Ryan Budget Punishes the Poorest -- A Return to 'Les Miserables'?

Harlan Green | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Les Miserables, Paul Ryan, Victor Hugo, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Ryan Plan, Paul Ryan Plan, Job Growth, FIB Small Business Confidence Survey, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

We know Victor Hugo's message is alive and well when Paul Ryan's latest budget proposal continues to punish the poorest for the sins of the wealthiest, who caused the Great Recession and have yet to be punished.

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Famous Authors’ Bizarre Obsessions

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Book News, Author Trivia, Author Obsessions, Victor Hugo, Famous Authors, Martin Amis, Flannery-Oconnor, Patti Smith, Author Facts, Books News

By Emily Temple for Flavorwire: We tend to put our favorite authors on a pedestal, and in some ways when we do that, we turn them into characters t...

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Sarkozy Strikes Against Extreme-Right Party Seeking To Co-Opt Joan Of Arc

AP | MICHEL EULER | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Joan of Arc Anniversary, Sarkozy, France, Joan of Arc France, Victor Hugo, Topicjoanofarc, Joan of Arc, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Joan of Arc Sarkozy, Joan of Arch, World News

DOMREMY-LA-PUCELLE, France — With a big dollop of patriotism, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday struck back at far-right nationalists w...

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Taylor Swift Gets The Break Of A Lifetime

Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Taylor Swift Les Miserables, Sacha Baron Cohen, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried Les Miserables, Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman Les Miserables, Movies, Video, Taylor Swift, Victor Hugo, Helena Bonham Carter, Amanda Seyfried, Hollywood Buzz, Celebrities, Entertainment News

From heartbreak to Hugo: Taylor Swift is growing up. The country star has been offered the role of Eponine in the star-studded upcoming film adapta...

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Hunchback of Notre Dame at Grace Cathedral New Year's Eve

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Lon Chaney, Victor Hugo, Grace Cathedral, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dorothy Papadakos, San Francisco Around Town, Movie News, San Francisco, Movies, Video, San Francisco News

For more than a few years, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco has screened a silent film on New Year's Eve. The tradition continues in 2011 when the landmark Episcopal church offers two screenings of the 1923 classic, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

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'Les Mis' To Hit Big Screen In 3D

Posted 11.19.2011

Whether you love them or hate them, Broadway musicals are known for their bombastic dramatics, and the upcoming film adaptation of 'Les Miserables,' t...

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Media Live Up to Name as Game Changers in Spreading Arab Revolutions

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Guardian, Al Hayat, Dubai, Aljazeera, Al Arabiya, Bloggers, Twitter, Palestine, Lebanon, Media, Chinese, Facebook, Menassat, Arabic, North Africa, Social Media, Afghanistan and Iraq, Arab, Victor Hugo, Middle East, Internet, Satellite Channels, Revolutions, Qatar, Egypt Social Media, Media News

Any invasion of armies today is being met with an equally hard-hitting invasion of media to cover unfolding events -- often to the consternation of those who seek to suppress people.

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Reflections on a Revolution -- Cairo, Egypt, 2011

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Civil Rights Movement, Gandhi, Egypt Revolution, Martin Luther King, Egypt, Civil Rights, Social Media, Nelson Mandela, Victor Hugo, Montgomery Alabama, Apartheid, World News

The events in Egypt represent a massive eloquent validation of the moral force and power of non-violent civil disobedience. Every participant in the Civil Rights Movement should shout, "We are all Egyptians today!"

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Three Underappreciated Silent Film Classics

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Leni, Rafael Sabatini, George C. Tilyou, Film Noir, Eleanor Boardman, Swashbuckler, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Mighty Wurlitzer, Sunset Boulevard, King Vidor, Billy Wilder, Gloria Swanson, Clark Wilson, Kilruddery Silent Film Festival, John Wayne, Conrad Veidt, Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, Steeplechase Park, Victor Hugo, Maurice Ravel, Dennis James, The Man Who Laughs, Norma Desmond, A Cottage on Dartmoor, Coney Island, Stephen Horne, Anthony Asquith, Wall-E, John Gilbert, Castro Theater, The Magnificent, Bardelys Film, Arts News

The Bay Area has a large and loyal base of silent film fans, many of whom will descend on the Castro Theatre this weekend for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's annual winter event.

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Proof? 'Real' Hunchback Of Notre Dame Uncovered

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris, Victor Hugo, Notre Dame Restoration, Le Bossu, Tate Collection, Tate Gallery, Les Miserables, The Hunchback, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo, Notre Dame Cathedral, World News

A U.K. archivist has uncovered clues that may prove Quasimodo -- the disfigured bell-ringer hero of Victor Hugo's 1831 classic "The Hunchback of Notre...

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Chess Puzzles: Henri Rinck's Magical Rooks

Lubomir Kavalek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Henri Rinck, Victor-Hugo, Andre Cheron, Sports News

Henri Rinck was one of the most prolific chess composers. His endgame studies were elegant, witty, entertaining, simple a beautiful.

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Top 10 Seafaring Tales

The Guardian | Carsten Jensen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Moby Dick, The Odyssey, Seafaring Books, Carsten Jensen, Victor Hugo, Joseph Conrad, Books, We the Drowned, Robert Louis Stevenson, Books News

"Given that men have sailed the seas for thousands of years, it's perhaps surprising how few great works of literature have been inspired by the seafa...

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Do You Know Your 'Love Language'?

Anne Naylor | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Quality Time, Spiritual Light, Acts of Service, Physical Touch, Words of Affirmation, Lao Tzu, Mother Theresa, Giving, Gifts, Holiday Season, Love Languages, Dr Gary Chapman, Love, Communication, Victor Hugo, Relationships, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News

This time of the year is one in which we are being showered with spiritual Light. This Light comes as a blessing: to let us see more clearly where we might have something to learn.

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'Is There a Doctor in the House?'

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: David's Quotes, Gates, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Accident, Murray, Victor Hugo, Palin, Featured Contributor, Walter Cronkite, Simple Tip, The Unexpected, Obama, Buddha, Health, Video, Healthy Living News

Of all the words I've heard in the past few days, the ones that spoke most deeply to me were these aboard the returning Amtrak train to Seattle: "Is there a doctor on board?" Believe me, I was invested in the answer.

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Pharmaceutical Drug Pushers Lead to National Overdose

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children, Woody Allen, Clinical Depression, Mother's Little Helper, Human Condition, Medicine Cabinets, Prozac, Ambien, Medications, Overdose, Faulty Diagnoses, Larry King, Campbell Soup, Bi-Polar, Nike, Coke, Psychotropic Drugs, Law and Order, Newsweek, Monet, Lincoln, Lipitor, Depression, Billie Holiday, Adhd, George Orwell, The New York Times, World War 2, Diagnoses, Pharmacies, Erection, Rodney Dangerfield, Pharmaceutical Industry, Victor Hugo, Priapism, Add, Lunesta, Beethoven, Botox, The Marx Brothers, Viagra, Vioxx, Insomnia, Painkillers, Valium, Zanax, Politics News

I only hope that some woman is lucky enough to be with a man who becomes afflicted with one side effect Viagra claims, a condition known as priapism, ...

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