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VIDEO: Productive Discourse…
The Buzz hasseen more civility at a “champagne and school girls” frat party.
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Clinton Tries Telling Nigeria What to Do
From the Washington Post: ABUJA, Nigeria — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday urged oil-rich Nigeria to embrace broad political reform and ease tensions that have led to sectarian violence and disrupted energy production in the Niger Delta. In the Nigerian capital of Abuja on the fifth stop in a seven-nation tour…
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VIBE Ain't Dead Yet
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The owners of Uptown magazine, including former Vibe Group Publisher Leonard Burnett Jr., are said to be near a deal to acquire the Vibe brand from CapitalSource, the major debt holder at Vibe when Wicks Group announced its shutdown in June. Wicks Group paid about $35 million, with financing from CapitalSource,…
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Missed Obama's Town Hall?
Check out The Buzz’s Shorter Obama tweets from the town hall today in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Here’s a sample: Shorter Obama: We need to build an economy that works for everybody. I hate America and freedom Shorter Obama: We have the AMA; y’all have Lou Dobbs Shorter Obama: We are trying to dilute the insurance…
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Lost in Translation: Hillary Ethered Student Due to Poor Translation
From The Guardian: During an appearance at a university in the Democratic Republic of Congo, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton went on an impromptu tirade following a question about her husband. However, it seems the query may have been relayed to Clinton incorrectly. According to CNN, a student in the audience wanted insight into…
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Our President is Like a Lucky Black Cartoon Cat
A take on Ferguson’s clever thoughts from Ta-Nehisi Coates: Via Fallows, Niall Ferguson has taken to calling Obama, “Felix the Prez.” I’ll allow the Harvard professor to explain why: “President Barack Obama reminds me of Felix the Cat. One of the best-loved cartoon characters of the 1920s, Felix was not only black. He was also…
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US Urges Justice for Congolese Women
From Al Jazeera: The US secretary of state has said that young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo must press the government to take action against corruption and sexual violence in the war-torn east of the country. “You are the ones who have to speak out,” Hillary Clinton told university students in Kinshasa, the…
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VIDEO: Hillary Justifies Her Thug in Q&A Session
As you know, The Buzz enjoys a bit of snark at the SOS’s expense, but in this video below, this response to a knuckleheaded question has just the right amount of indignation without, in our opinion, overreacting. She set an ignorant inquisitor straight. Some people are label this video as one in which Secretary Clinton’s…
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88
From the Washington Post: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, a member of a political dynasty who devoted her life to improving the welfare of the mentally disabled by founding the Special Olympics, died Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., after a series of strokes. Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and…
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Katherine Jackson Objects to Estate Executor's Plans with AEG Live
From CNN: The dispute between Michael Jackson’s mother and the men Jackson chose to run his estate after his death threatens to delay or derail plans for a documentary of the pop singer’s last days. Katherine Jackson’s lawyers objected in court Monday to the deals made by the Michael Jackson estate’s special administrators with concert…
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