This is How Gary Coleman’s Ex-Wife Will Finally Answer Suspicions She Was Involved in His Death, Once and for All
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Pearl Cleage Talks Prose and Politics
It’s spring in Atlanta, the flowering shrubs are blooming, and writer Pearl Cleage‘s most recent novel, Till You Hear From Me, is newly published. Her latest play, starring Jasmine Guy, is debuting in September. And she has something else to look forward to: tomatoes, which her husband, Zaron W. Burnett Jr., has just planted in…
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NEWS STAND: Malawi Pardons Gay Couple, Cargill Pushes Salt, Yes, Alicia Keys is Pregnant, and more..
Malawi President Pardons Gay Couple http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/world/africa/30malawi.html?ref=world Hope springs eternal after all. A gay couple sentenced to 14 years in a Malawian prison for “unnatural acts” was pardoned shortly after Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the United Nations met Malawi’s president. In a press conference, President Bingu wa Mutharika stated, “These boys committed a crime against…
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Bum Rush? Israeli Commandos Kill 10 on Aid Flotilla Bound for Gaza
An aid flotilla carrying provisions and hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists has intercepted by Israeli commandos in a pre-dawn raid in which at least ten were killed Israel said the forces encountered unexpected resistance as they boarded the vessels. Dozens of passengers and at least five Israeli soldiers were wounded in the confrontation in international waters.…
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British Petroleum Spill May Not Be Capped Until August
British Petroleum continues to fail at plugging the Deepwater Horizon leak and it looks like that bad boy’s gonna keep on gushing for some time A top Obama administration official warned Sunday that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill might not be stopped until late summer after BP’s latest attempt to plug the leak failed.…
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Today in Common Sense: Beck Apologizes for Malia Obama Comments
Someone on the Glenn Beck’s radio show had sense enough to tell him that teasing an eleven-year-old girl was not a good look and that he should probably apologize In a statement posted on his website Friday afternoon, Beck said he broke his own rule about “leaving kids out of political debates.” “In discussing how…
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Keith Olbermann Changes Sign Off, Takes Shot at Obama
George W. Bush is no longer the object of Keith Olbermann’s criticism at the end of his show on MSNBC This week Olbermann transitioned from closing the program with a shot at former Pres. George W. Bush to one that takes aim more at Pres. Barack Obama. Since early 2006, Olbermann has closed his Countdown…
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Blacks Lose Ground in the U.S. Military
The impressive strides that African Americans have made in the leadership ranks of the military following integration have all but stopped in recent years, and they now occupy just a tiny share of the nation’s top military jobs. Nearly 62 years after President Harry R. Truman signed an executive order to desegregate the nation’s Armed…
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Do You 'Friend' a Childhood Bully?
It was an ordinary day at the job. I was running reports, checking emails and checking my Facebook account for the umpteenth time that afternoon. “Ooh, a new friend request,” I thought. But when that window popped up and I saw my elementary school bully, Sabrina Jefferson (name changed to protect the guilty), I screeched, “Oh…
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President Obama's War Wizardry
Sometimes I wonder if President Obama reads too many Ben Okri novels. As we transform from a U.S.-dominated, unipolar international order to a non-polar world, virtually everything about his Middle East policy as outlined in the latest National Security Strategy seems to have been infected by a kind of magical thinking. From Afghanistan to Israel/Palestine…
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Jamaican Drug Lord Allegedly Seeking Asylum Abroad
A lawyer says she’s spoken to drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke and says he’s seeking sanctuary abroad Hannah Harris Barrington said she talked to Christopher “Dudus” Coke seven times as loyalists barricaded his stronghold in the Kingston slum of Tivoli Gardens to block his extradition to the US. She said Mr Coke, 42, reputed to…