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Soyinka on 'Obscene' Push for Achebe Nobel
A Nigerian Nobel laureate wants fans of the late fellow writer to table calls for a posthumous prize.
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Child-Support Laws: A Boon for Gold Diggers?
Experts say that flaws in the system punish poor parents and motivate others to have kids for money.
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Doggie Racism Is Real! Here's How to Deal
Race Manners: Maybe your friends' pets are doing you a favor? At least now your social circle can't ignore race.
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What Black High School Grads Need to Hear
Show Me the Numbers: Graduation speakers often opt for tough love. Here's what they should say instead.
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First Step: Pass the Bill
Adam Serwer of The American Prospect wants to remind people the public option is not the bill itself...
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Usain Bolt Covers 100 Meters Much More Quickly than Everyone Else
9.58 seconds? Homie definitely took the track game into "ludicrous speed"...
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Um...Isn't the Public Option Kind of the Point?
The White House is considering dropping the public option in favor of a "nonprofit health cooperative"...
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Mr. President, You Have Some 'Splainin' to Do...
Because this internal memo looks like the kind of juicy giveaways to the pharmaceutical companies that you've been publicly putting your shoe into for weeks...
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Doing Write while Doing Time
Sentenced to nine years in prison at the age of sixteen for carjacking, R. Dwayne Betts discovered something unexpected while relegated to solitary confinement for assaulting a guard: a love of literature.
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Party Time! Southerners Celebrate 150th Anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression
Some people also call it the "Civil War", but those individuals obviously hate freedom...
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Clinton Ends African Tour in Cape Verde
Many Cape Verdean citizens were said to be wailing in the streets, forced to come to grips with the fact that, despite their years of trying to convince people otherwise, they are indeed AFRICANS...
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Bird of a New Feather: Vick Signs with Eagles
Having paid his debt, the former Falcons star looks to get his career back on track in Philadelphia...
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VIDEO: Michael Vick Schools the Youth
Michael Vick Speaks To Englewood Youth About Negative Impact Of Dogfighting At a church in Chicago, IL...
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Les Paul, Guitar Legend, Dies at 94
Paul was a guitar and electronics mastermind whose creations -- such as multitrack recording, tape delay and the solid-body guitar that bears his name, the Gibson Les Paul -- helped give rise to modern popular music, including rock 'n' roll...
