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McCain Leaves An Angry Michigan (05 October 01:35) |
| Politico reports that Michigan Republicans are furious at John McCain's decision this week to abandon the state, which at one point had been considered one of his best prospects among the st... |
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Nerd World Book Club: Anathem, Parts 6-10 (05 October 01:35) |
| I have entered a stage familiar to me from other Stephenson books, a state of deep immersion where I carry the thing around all the time and read it while walking, talking on the phone, oper... |
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Protecting Our Kids from Shows That Suck (05 October 01:35) |
| I received a screener DVD collection of season one of The Smurfs and promptly hid it. I don't want my children to find it, and thereby know of The Smurfs' existence. |
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The Race, Status Quo Ante; For Palin, Late Night Jokes Could Cease (03 October 12:00) |
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Did Undecided Women Go for Sarah Palin? (03 October 12:00) |
| Even women who found her personally likeable and confident complained that she seemed "coached" and stuck so closely to "talking points and sound bytes" that they weren't sure what kind of v... |
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10/2 Recap (03 October 12:00) |
| Another good day of state polling for Barack Obama: solid numbers in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico and North Carolina. |
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Palin-Biden Seen in Cairo (03 October 12:00) |
| The Alaska governor's no Middle East expert; Obama's running clearly is. |
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Hu Jia: Six Months and Counting (03 October 12:00) |
| It is exactly six months ago today that dissident Hu Jia was sentenced to three years in jail. His case has received much internaional attention and there is even speculation that he could b... |
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Wells-Wachovia: That's $270 Billion Less We're on the Hook For (03 October 12:00) |
| In a fascinating turn of events, Wells Fargo - which had been about to buy Wachovia a week ago and then backed down, forcing the FDIC to bankroll a shotgun acquisition by Citigroup - cha... |
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I'm Taking a Class (03 October 12:00) |
| A couple of weeks before she died, my mom asked me to make a collage. |
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Does Anyone Want to Write My Halloween Name? (03 October 12:00) |
| On the credits of The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, the producers and staff always replace their unfunny and unspooky real names with spooky and funny "Halloween Names." |
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Kids Will Love The Clone Wars. Is That Good Enough? (03 October 12:00) |
| A brief review in the print TIME this week on Cartoon Network's Clone Wars series, which debuts tonight. The gist: If you judge it against the original trilogy, it's awful, like this summer'... |
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Piano Plays in San Francisco (03 October 12:00) |
| I spent some time last week with Renzo Piano, the busiest Italian architect in America, to take a look around his new California Academy of the Sciences.
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Some Bad Advice for John McCain (29 September 10:15) |
| Bill Kristol has a hilarious column in today's Times. He suggests that McCain is losing, but can "surge to victory," if he gets his act together and gets...mean? |
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State Polls 9/28 (29 September 10:15) |
| A quick run down of some state polls released today ... |
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The Problem With Beijing's New Car Rules (29 September 10:15) |
| My sense is that the benefits will be mild at best and that the exercise risks wasting the enthusiasm residents have for some sort of long-term solution to the pollution problem. |
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Citi-Wachovia: Another Day, Another $270 Billion (29 September 10:15) |
| Somebody remind me: Why did we need this Paulson bill again? |
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Lisa Can't Quit the New York Times (29 September 10:15) |
| A couple of months ago, just before I left for my hometown in Japan, I canceled my newspaper subscription... |
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A Moral Guide to Online Book Buying (29 September 10:15) |
| Buying books online is easy, right? Just point and click and get and read. Right? Wrong. |
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Is Tina Fey Helping or Hurting Sarah Palin? (29 September 10:15) |
| Tina Fey, playing Palin, and Amy Poehler, playing Katie Couric's eyelashes, reprised SNL's satire of the Vice presidential candidate Saturday night, capping off a week of bad media for the n... |
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Another Slice of Bacon (29 September 10:15) |
| After two weeks on the road I'm back in New York. But what I can't get out of my head is that Francis Bacon show in London.
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Hill Meetings End With No Bailout
(27 September 09:20) |
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Studying the Debate, the Snap Polls That Followed (27 September 09:20) |
| Obama won, according to the cross tabs, on the more important issues, thereby accounting for his snap poll victories. |
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Compromise Falling Apart? (27 September 09:20) |
| The Politico's Daniel Reilly reports that things aren't looking good for the bailout compromise on the Hill ... |
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Reading the Signs of the Syrian Bombing (27 September 09:20) |
| When a terrorist act occurs in Syria, I feel like an astrologist watching a volcanic eruption on a distant planet for omens. Today's bombing in Damascus is a reminder that under the surface ... |
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The Coming Plenum: The Center Cannot Hold (27 September 09:20) |
| For those of you interested in the inner workings of politics in the Communist Party, there is an insightful look ahead to the Party's imminent Plenum by veteran Zhongnanhai-ologist Willy La... |
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The Economics of the Debate (27 September 09:20) |
| What did we learn about the candidates' economic policies tonight? John McCain is going to cut pork-barrel spending. All $18 billion of it. Barack Obama has a lot of plan for regular folks l... |
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Bungie Will Release New Halo 3 Content. Wort Wort Wort (27 September 09:20) |
| Yesterday I got an advance copy of LucasArts' Fracture in the mail, so I've been deforming terrain like a mother. |
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TV Weekend: A Month of Sundays (27 September 09:20) |
| Lots of TV going down Sunday - more than I can reasonably review here, more than you will probably watch. |
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Now "C" Here (27 September 09:20) |
| The good news is that the Los Angeles Times has started its own arts blog. The bad news is they appear to have, ahem, "adapted" its name from another blog. |
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Obama and McCain on the Bailout: You First! (23 September 06:00) |
| However imperfect the ultimate bailout bill is, neither wants to be tagged as the key killer vote if the bill fails and the markets go into free fall.
Unless, of course, the other guy votes ... |
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Jerusalem's Latest Suicidal Driver (23 September 06:00) |
| The motive behind why Arabs are turned their vehicles into lethal weapons in Jerusalem defies an easy answer. |
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Do We Really Need This Bailout? (23 September 06:00) |
| Responding to an argument that maybe we don't. |
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Schoolhouse Rock and the Election (23 September 06:00) |
| My earlier Emmy roundup focused on the award winners and what they say about the TV business. But the Emmy show is receiving a flat-out horsewhipping from critics everywhere. |
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McCain's Legitimate Attack (23 September 12:10) |
| McCain has a new ad attacking Obama "and his liberal allies" for failing to lead in the midst of the current financial markets crisis. |
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Live-Blogging the Senate Bailout Hearings (23 September 12:10) |
| Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke (and Chris Cox and James Lockhart, but do you think anybody really cares what they say) are guests of the Senate Banking Committee this morning. |
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"The Whole World Is Watching to See if We Can Act Quickly"
(23 September 01:30) |
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The George Will Effect (23 September 01:30) |
| Conservative columnist George Will hits McCain with a broadside, all but declaring him temperamentally unfit for office. |
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NC Poll: Dead Heat (23 September 01:30) |
| New poll in North Carolina from the Civitas Institute (September 17-20, 600 LV) shows Barack Obama pulling into a dead heat with John McCain, a six point gain from last month... |
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Prez Debate: 5 Middle East Questions (23 September 01:30) |
| Here are the questions I'd love PBS's Jim Lehrer to ask Barack Obama and John McCain during the University of Mississippi debate on Friday. |
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Seeing Sichuan Through the Survivors' Lenses (23 September 01:30) |
| A special section at the 2008 Pingyao International Photography Festival is dedicated to 50 residents of the quake-stricken town of Wenchuan. They recorded life after the quake with point-an... |
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A Nation of (Involuntary) Shareholders (23 September 01:30) |
| In the late 1990s, when the stock market was hot hot hot, there was a lot of talk about how the U.S. had become "shareholder nation." |
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Two New iPods: A Few Tasting Notes (23 September 01:30) |
| I'm currently in possession of the two new iPods, the new Nano and the new Touch. Here are a few tasting notes (from one who has tasted them all) |
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Emmy Poll: Was It Really That Bad? (23 September 01:30) |
| My earlier Emmy roundup focused on the award winners and what they say about the TV business. But the Emmy show is receiving a flat-out horsewhipping from critics everywhere. |
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McCain to Lay Out Economic Vision
(19 September 01:35) |
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The Moral Psychology of Politics (19 September 01:35) |
| Jonathan Haidt, a professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in the "moral foundations of politics" explains how our minds approach politics, and argues not for less partisanshi... |
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Doctors Call For McCain's Medical Records (19 September 01:35) |
| Brave New Films, the organization that produced the Phillip Butler POW ad, held a conference call with 3 physicians representing more than 2,000 physicians calling on McCain for "full, publi... |
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Arab-American Vote Could Help Obama (19 September 01:35) |
| Arab-Americans are throwing their support behind Barack Obama. The votes of Arab-Americans could give a boost in the key swings states like Michigan to Obama over John McCain. |
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Beijing's View of the Finance Crisis: Opportunity and Danger (19 September 01:35) |
| The word for crisis in Chinese is weiji, made up as the tale goes from two characters, one meaning 'danger' and the other 'opportunity.' |
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AIG: Still a Company (19 September 01:35) |
| The insurance giant's new CEO talks about what's next |
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