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Stories From the Hunt for Evan Ratliff

Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Here are the answers: Mike Selinker Lone Shark Games Before the hunt...

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Best story of the season? VY's revival

Vince Young is shaping up to be the best story of this NFL season. Maybe that's just the sportswriter in me talking. (Yes, I actually have a sportswriter living INSIDE me. It's like a tapeworm, except it eats more.) But the...

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What if People Actually Treated Religion as Just a Metaphor (Like Trekkies and Secular Jews)?

By Greta Christina, AlterNet. Share and save this post: Russell Blackford, Udo Schuklenk Upcoming AlterNet stories on Digg If religion really were just a metaphor, just a comforting and inspiring story that gives shape and...

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Aboutorabi: An offense to free speech

Published Friday, November 20, 2009 Writers from Thucydides to George Orwell have observed that, in political disputes, the meaning of words is often the first casualty. Perhaps I was wrong to be surprised, then, by Yale...

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Libresco: Shirts hide our best selves

Published Friday, November 20, 2009 The Freshman Class Council has finally resolved its T-shirt troubles, substituting a generic anti-Harvard logo for a problematic F. Scott Fitzgerald line calling Harvard men sissies. I’m glad...

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Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll

In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.

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Six Reasons We Need the Rich (at Minyanville.com)

Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for chronicling the rich in The Great Gatsby, supposedly said to Ernest Hemingway, “The rich are different than you and me.” To which Hemingway reportedly quipped, “Yes, they have more...

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Freshman Class Council scraps offensive shirts

Published Thursday, November 19, 2009 The Freshman Class Council has run into controversy with its T-shirts for The Game. The FCC has decided to change the design of its shirts after the original design, which was submitted by...

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Where the Rich (Still) Live - BusinessWeek

From the Gold Coast of Long Island to the hills of Silicon Valley, there is still great wealth to be found in isolated—and protected—enclaves A visitor to Brookville, N.Y., can quickly forget that the tiny village is just off...

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Nicolas Cage Sued by Former Money Manager

Actor Sued Manager for $20M Last Month; Countersuit Claims Cage was Profligate Spender Cage is seen in a May, 2009 file photo. (AP Photo) (AP) Actor Nicolas Cage is being sued by his former business manager, who claims lavish...

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