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  • Body of Missing Yale Student Found

    On the day she was to be married, the remains of missing Yale med student Annie Le have been found. From CNN: Le’s body was discovered Sunday, hidden in a basement wall in a medical research building. The 24-year-old graduate student in pharmacology, who had been scheduled to get married the day her remains were…

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  • VIDEO: As the Kids Say: "ROFL"

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  • Greed Ain't Good: Comrade Obama Sets Sights on Wall Street

    Take cover, Wall Street. President Obama’s socialist Nazi wagon train is headed to your neck of the woods and the Hoss in Chief has reform on his mind! From the Washington Post: President Obama will head to Wall Street on Monday to try to breathe new life into efforts to overhaul the financial regulatory system,…

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  • VIDEO: ACORN Workers Allegedly Giving Streetwalking Advice

    While there are always two sides to a story, this looks pretty not great in any way. From CNN: Two employees at the Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the liberal community organizing group ACORN were caught on tape allegedly offering advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring…

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  • The Confab — Sept. 11, 2009

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  • Wigga Please!

    Joe Lies: Rules for Heckling the President Rowdy joint session of Congress? Just follow these guidelines. David Swerdlick 11 September 2009 It’s a pretty safe bet that when Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, “You lie!” during President Barack Obama’s address to congress, Wilson had no intention of being the lone angry voice cutting through the silence…

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  • Results Back for South African Track Star

    Sex may seem an easy thing to determine, but the case of Caster Semenya proves it is anything but. Semenya, a world record holder the 800 meter run has been under scrutiny for weeks regarding whether or not she can compete in womens’ event as there have been questions regarding testosterone levels in her body.…

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  • The Endless Aftermath of 9/11

    [Editor’s note, Sept. 11, 2010: Though this essay first appeared on The Root one year ago, we believe it’s still as relevant today as it was then.] Sept. 11, 2001, was, of course, one of those Technicolor days, with beyond-perfect temperatures, azure skies — the better to see the column of smoke towering from lower…

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  • Jeter Ties Gehrig on Yankees' All-Time Hit List

    2,721. That’s how many hits it took for Derek Jeter to tie Lou Gehrig’s Yankee record. The hit came last night against the Tampa Bay Rays in the seventh inning. From ESPN: “It’s just kind of mind-boggling to know my name is next to his,” Jeter said after the Yankees’ 4-2 victory. Jeter had a…

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  • So a Birther in a Joe Wilson Costume Heckled the President…

    “You lie.” Those words may greatly affect Joe Wilson’s political career in the days to come. Last night, during the president’s address to the Congress, Wilson expressed his displeasure at the president’s claim that health insurance reform would not cover illegal immigrants. Wilson took it upon himself to have a town hallian outburst then and…

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