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Book Review: Sarah Palin's Going Rogue

Catie Lazarus | Posted November 22, 2009 | Politics

In deference to reading about Sarah Palin's book Going Rogue on The Daily Kos and watching clips from her appearance on Oprah, I wrote a review, as there is so little written and said about her already.

With her new book, Going Rogue, Sarah...

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Tevye From Fiddler Back With Bikel

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted November 22, 2009 | New York

Read More: Diaspora, Fiddler On The Roof, Lower East Side, Pale Of Settlement, Sholom Aleichem, Tevye The Milkman, Theodore Bikel, Yiddish

Tevye the Milkman, the working stiff Jewish Everyman from the shtetls of Russia, may not be one of Broadway's sexiest characters, but he certainly has been one of its most enduring. And one actor more than any other has embodied the role of the tradition-bound, world-weary, rich-man obsessed song and...

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Reporting on the Bloomberg campaign: too little too late

Leonie Haimson | Posted November 22, 2009 |

Read More: Bloomberg Campaign, Garin-Hart, New York Times, Winning Margin

There have been many post-mortems over the last few weeks about how Michael Bloomberg, the New York City mayor, could spend more than $90 million, breaking all spending records except for presidential campaigns, and yet manage to win only 50.6% of the vote.

Despite saturation advertising on TV, radio,...

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2010 Could Wreak Havoc Again

Dan Dorfman | Posted November 22, 2009 | Business

Read More: 2010, Economy, Economy 2010, Recession, US Economy

Maybe I'll toast in the new year with beer, not champagne. Why so? Read on.

First, seeing is believing, not hearing is believing. It's worth keeping that in mind since with less than seven weeks to go before we're in 2010, you'll soon be bombarded in print and on TV...

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Facing Criticism, Goldman Sachs Cancels Plan to Dance Around Bonfire of Thousand Dollar Bills

Andy Borowitz | Posted November 22, 2009 | Comedy

Read More: Andy Borowitz, Borowitz Report, Cocaine, Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs Bonuses, Hookers, Lloyd Blankfein, Wall Street Bonuses

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Facing mounting criticism from the public and the media, Goldman Sachs announced today that they would cancel plans to dance around a bonfire of thousand-dollar bills.

The company had planned to perform a pagan dance around the inferno of blazing thousands while roasting a...

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Why Not Just "Ethical Businesses" Must Truly Be Ethical

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted November 22, 2009 | Business

Read More: Brac, Ethical-Business, Financial Crisis, France Telecom, Free Trade, Grameen, Lehmann Brothers, Poverty, Sexism, Social Business, Suicide, Wmpowerment, Women

Now more than ever, with the stress and pressures of job loss due to the financial crisis, the concept of "Ethical Business Practices," especially in the areas of social business, microfinance and free trade, must indeed meet higher standards. And many of these great organizations such as the Grameen Bank,...

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Where Palin and Beck Supporters Are Right And Why Obama Better Listen

Lee Stranahan | Posted November 22, 2009 | Politics

"Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is." - Bob Dylan

Former HuffPost intern David Vines wrote a good piece about the following little bit of video that shows a young Sarah Palin supporter being asked about the shirt she's wearing. But while Mr. Vines...

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When Less Is More... Mammography and Paps

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted November 22, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Diagnostic Imaging, Health Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Kathleen Sebelius, Mammogram Guidelines

Last week, leading experts correctly challenged long held practices in women's health. Despite the evidence, doctors and patients, as well as political and community leaders hotly debated these recommendations. My heart sank when Kathleen Sebelius, Director of Health and Human Services (HHS) weighed in and suggested that women ignore...

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Cancer Confusion for Women

Roseanne Colletti | Posted November 22, 2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Screenings, Cervical Cancer, Mammograms, Pap Smears, Radiology, Women's Health

I don't know about you, but I'm confused. Who is telling me the truth about mammograms and Pap smears? A federal panel says women can wait until 50 for yearly mammograms. A group representing obstetricians and gynecologists advises women can wait until 21 for their first screening for cervical cancer.(

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Philippines: Gays Legally Deemed Immoral and a Danger to Youth

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted November 22, 2009 | World

Read More: Ang Ladlad, Asia, Bisexuals, Catholic Church, Election Results, Filipinos, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Gays And Lesbians, Gloria Arroyo, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Immoral, Jonas Bagas, Lesbians, MJ Yap, Philippines, Transgender, Transgender Issues

The Philippines Electoral Commission has refused a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender citizens the right to register as a political party to run in the 2010 elections.

In denying the rights of the group Ang Ladlad (Out of the Closet) the Commission quoted verses from...

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Barbara Fairchild On Today's Changing Foodscape

Louise McCready | Posted November 22, 2009 | Style

Read More: Barbara Fairchild, Bon Appetit, Calorie-Posting, Daniel Boulud, David Chang, Food, Jose Andres, Kogi, Los Angeles, Obesity, Soda Tax

Thirty-one years after starting at Bon Appétit as an editorial assistant typing recipes, Barbara Fairchild is celebrating ten years as editor-in-chief and being honored by MinOnline as one of 2009's 21 Most Intriguing People in Media. Since the closing of Gourmet, Ms. Fairchild has been increasingly in the public eye...

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Weekend Box Office Review: Cedric Diggory Crushes Harry Potter -- Twilight Saga: New Moon Opens With $140 Million

Scott Mendelson | Posted November 22, 2009 | Entertainment

If you're a Batman fan or a general guy-centric geek, you're probably thinking "That was close... too close". If you're a Twi-fanatic, you're thinking something along...

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As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region

Nick Turse | Posted November 22, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, US Military, US Military Bases Iraq, US Military Spending

Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that well over 100,000 U.S. troops are still deployed in that country, coverage of the U.S. war in Iraq has been largely replaced in the mainstream press by the (previously) "forgotten war" in Afghanistan....

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Just Days Apart, New York Times Mourns Two John J. O'Connors

Danny Groner | Posted November 22, 2009 | Media

Read More: Death, Funeral, John J. O'Connor, New York Times, Obituaries, Obituary, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sandra Day O'Connor Husband, Spokane Daily Chronicle

Chalk it up to a coincidence, but within the span of a week the New York Times ran obituaries for two people named John J. O'Connor.

The first announced the death of the husband of former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired from the Supreme Court to care for...

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2012: the end of Oprah or of everything?

Sybil Adelman Sage | Posted November 22, 2009 | Comedy

Read More: 2012, Mayans, Oprah

There's been an unrelenting amount of dismal news. Heaped on top of the existing and illogical wars, economic woes, job scarcity, terrorism, genocide, trafficking of women, global warming, identity theft, the greed of pharmaceutical companies and Wall Street tycoons, we're worried about health care reform, Social Security going broke, swine...

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What Is the Health Care Debate Really About?

Byron Williams | Posted November 22, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care

What is the current health care debate really about?

Is it about cost? Is it government's inability to adequately deliver services that are best left to the private sector? Or is it a middle-class disdain for the poor?

According to the Congressional Budget Office, Senate Democrats this week unveiled The...

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Letter From London

Murray Fromson | Posted November 22, 2009 | Media

Read More: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, London, Oprah Winfrey

It is amazing how a presidential junket and the meanderings of a silly little woman with pretensions to the White House can bump a war off the front pages or as the lead stories of broadcast news. President Obama, for instance, was attempting to show the better side of our...

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Unclaimed Persons

Megan Smolenyak | Posted November 22, 2009 | Living

Read More: Coroner, Family History, Genealogy, Holiday, Lost Loved Ones, Medical Examiner, Missing, Unclaimed Persons

It's a quiet epidemic and I'm mystified why it gets so little attention. In fact, most are probably still unaware of it, but ask any coroner or medical examiner and you'll get an earful about the struggle to deal with the growing number of unclaimed persons. These aren't John and...

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Sneak Preview: The Oprah Winfrey Network

Spencer Green | Posted November 22, 2009 | Comedy

Read More: Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Gayle King, Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Network, The Oprah Winfrey Show

Before Oprah Winfrey's last daily show airs in September 2011, she will premiere The Oprah Winfrey Network. Via spies at Harpo Productions, here is a preview of the bold and innovative programming that network with feature:

MONDAY

8:00am - Grief Counselors Prepare You For Oprah's Regular Show Leaving the Air...

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Reading The Pictures: Birther Attack Gets a Fort Hood Twist

Michael Shaw | Posted November 22, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Birther, Fort Hood, John Moore, Obama, Phil Wolf

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If anti-abortion picketers can routinely intimidate women outside health clinics, can it be that hard for protestors to scare off all but the most racist customers from doing business with this attention-seeking, hate-mongering Colorado used car salesman? (See...

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