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Judge OKs Vick's Bankruptcy Plan
With a steady day job squared away, Michael Vick now has a way of paying back his creditors and Judge Frank Santoro likes his plan for how he intends to do it. From ESPN: A judge in Virginia on Thursday approved Michael Vick‘s plan to repay creditors who are owed $20 million and emerge from…
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Who Will Run New Orleans?
For the last several years, New Orleans has been working to bill itself to the movie industry as the “Hollywood South.” Yet with a wide-open mayor’s race to replace the term-limited and oft-investigated C. Ray Nagin on the horizon for next February, New Orleans might be bringing an unwanted side effect from its California courtship:…
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Oui, Son! French Rap and the Politics of Free Speech
The French rap game ain’t nothin to fuqua wit: From The New York Times: A gentlemanly patron of the arts, Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, seems an unlikely champion of rap. But when the French artist Orelsan called publicly for his support at the height of a months-long free-speech polemic around the rapper’s song “Sale…
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History, Uncovered: Emmett Till's Casket to Be Donated to New Museum
A piece of gruesome history is on its way to Washington DC. From the Chicago Tribune: Plans are in the works to exhibit the casket that once held the body of lynching victim Emmett Till at the Smithsonian Institution’s planned National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington when it opens in 2015.…
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Oprah's Takeover Stalled
Has the proposed network become Oprah’s Waterloo? From The LA Times: The Oprah Winfrey Network seems to have everything needed to succeed: some of the best creative minds in the business, strong financial backing, a loyal audience and enthusiastic advertisers eager to buy commercial time. But more than 20 months after the announcement that Winfrey…
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Cleveland Clinic Will Not Hire Smokers
We all know hundreds of hospitals are staffed with smoking, out-of-shape, McDonalds-eating employees. I’ve sat in the offices of nurses and doctors who hurry me through yearly physicals and then run out for a smoke break or a bite of pastrami on white bread. If you haven’t had a similar experience then you’re lying to…
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Edward M. Kennedy: Civil Rights Champion
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s skills were never more successful and constant than in the area of civil rights: for minorities, for women, for the disabled and for immigrants. Over nearly five decades, the Massachusetts Democrat, who died Tuesday at age 77, assumed an increasingly important role in framing the nation’s civil rights laws and in leading…
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'Missouri Model' Gives Juvenile Offenders Chance to Go Legit
Missouri is redfining the way juvenile detention is done. From CNN: Getting arrested for stealing cars after his 16th birthday may be the best thing that ever happened to Terrence Barkley. It got him out of gangs and headed to college. While in one of Missouri’s juvenile facilities, Barkley became editor of its student newspaper,…