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Soccer Mania Disrupts South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Performances
The South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic is hopping mad because impromptu soccer matches keep breaking out during its performances. The group is world-renowned for being one of the best large-scale, monotonic wind instrument ensembles in the world and does not take kindly to folks playing soccer during its outdoor concerts. They see it as disrespectful to…
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Is BP's Escrow Account the Right Move Now?
On Wednesday the White House released a statement explaining that BP had agreed to set aside $20 billion for an escrow account through which legitimate claims of damages resulting from the Gulf oil spill would be paid. Kenneth Feinberg, who formerly headed the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, will be the independent claims administrator, and…
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Worth Obsessing Over: Our Favorite Blogs
www.postbourgie.com What it is: A blog that hits on the day’s hot topics—from politics to media to education—from a stable of solid, smart writers across the nation. Why we like it: The random midday hotness? Always hot. And the Monday “random-ass” roundups compile the best of the Web to get your gears turning early in the week. Also, the comments are…
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What Will Happen to Juneteenth?
“So how do you celebrate Juneteenth?” I asked my Twitter friends a few weeks ago. After a dead-tweet silence, I retweeted myself for emphasis. Even then, just a handful of my 300 or so Twitter friends responded with a few half-baked answers. “Go to some crappy festival,” one Californian said. “I celebrate by doing nothing,”…
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Drop Your Spoons: SpaghettiOs Recalled
What is the world coming to when you can’t feed your little ones Spaghettios? We know that we shouldn’t be serving up canned food to kids, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, and Spaghettios make it easier. Well, Campbell’s soup has recalled 15 million pounds of kid-tested and formerly mother-approved SpaghettiOs for…
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The Tie That Binds: NY Keeps Incarcerated Parents and Their Children Together
In prisons throughout the country, children are separated from parents who commit crimes. The way that timetables work, depending on the length of the sentence, many children are declared abandoned and pushed into the foster care system in hopes of finding a permanent living situation. What typically happens is that children often remain in the…
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Pew Report: 'Muslim World' Disappointed in America and Obama
Although President Obama’s popularity is still decent in the United States, his popularity among Muslims throughout the world has fallen. One year after President Obama’s pioneering speech in Cairo, he is viewed with more skepticism by the Muslim world. His decline in popularity is tied to his perceived lack of follow-through on bridging Western and…
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Single-Minded: Sending My Mom Love on Father's Day
I don’t get those single women who say they’ve had to be ”the mother and the father” to their kids. Nobody can be two people. Not even Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde could pull it off, and they had mad science on their side. Thing is you’re either someone’s mother or father, the two roles…
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How Should Barack Obama Confront Racial Injustice?
One of the most remarkable ironies to contend with is the fact that as we think about Professor [Henry Louis] Gates’ [Jr., editor-in-chief of The Root] arrest, President Obama’s intervention, the public reaction, and the broader issues of race, class, and crime, we find ourselves at a critical juncture in history. We must rejoice in…