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Forbes, 03.09.10 21:25 UTC

America's Storyteller

Ken Burns has reinvented documentary films--how they're financed, made and aired.

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Huffington Post, 01.09.10 17:10 UTC

From Joe McCarthy to Glenn Beck -- Time to End Fear of the Witch Hunt

I listened to Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" speech hoping to find something of substance to write about. I found a stringing together of such empty phrases it does not bear discussion. The more ...

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Huffington Post, 27.08.10 16:30 UTC

Mark Twain In New York City: Where Are The Author's Landmarks?

The New York Times: Mark Twain was a lifelong traveler, and his footsteps are all over New York City. Many of them are detailed in "Mark Twain: A Life" by Ron Powers (Free Press, 2005). Twain ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22.08.10 04:12 UTC

Hemingway's first and forever love

Northern Michigan is where the great writer came of age

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21.08.10 06:30 UTC

Biden Urges D.N.C. to Reject Grim Election Forecast

ST. LOUIS -- Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. admonished Democrats on Friday to shake away their pessimism about the fall elections, arguing that the prospect of historic losses would be minimized ...

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Telegraph, 18.08.10 17:40 UTC

A-level results: dealing with deadlines

Congratulations. You ve made the grade. You ve just completed 13 years of education. Practically every hour of those 13 years has been timetabled for you. And now it s over. You re going to university.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 18.08.10 04:57 UTC

Vampire movies deliver bloody delights

Popular culture is in the grip of vampire mania. With "The Vampire Diaries," "True Blood" and "The Gates" on television and the latest chapter of "The Twilight Saga," as well as the satire "Vampires ...

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Huffington Post, 16.08.10 19:41 UTC

Fairy Tales and History Rhymes

Perhaps the worst insult you can hurl at a politician these days is to give him the middle name of "Hoover." Such as George Hoover Bush and Barack Hoover Obama. 80 years later Herbert Hoover is still ...

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Huffington Post, 09.08.10 17:25 UTC

A Blueprint for Graduate School Success

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education" - Mark Twain Graduate school is an experiment in hope. It's also a risky investment, an expensive program in which we entrust time in our lives to ...

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Huffington Post, 09.08.10 11:31 UTC

Why 'Good Enough' Never Is

Last week's post focused on impeccability as a possible key to integrity. Raising the question of impeccability coupled with having quoted a reader who found inspiration from Carlos Castaneda on the ...

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