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Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, has taken a page out of the McCain-Palin playbook, and is living up to his organization’s moniker. Cuban has been accused of insider trading by the SEC because of his recent moves on the market.

Rugby brings the world to you and you to the world,” Alex Pettiford, a sophomore, said. Also, nine minutes well spent. Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\”

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders. Looks like…

Obama Round-Up Cory Booker: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cory-booker/barack-obama-is-elected-p_b_142499.html “Obama’s Elected — Now What?” Frank Rich: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin “GOP Evokes Apartheid”      Hutchinson: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/obama-assassination-jitte_b_144063.html “Assassination Jitters” Ruben Navarrette: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/opinion/16rich.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin “Did Affirmative Action Affect Election?” Robinson: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/obamas_win_changing_social_att.html “Bad Day for Comedians” Hitchens: http://www.slate.com/id/2204240/ “Barack to Reality” Terrence Heath: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terrance-heath/first-you-get-mad_b_143975.html “On Prop 8: Get Mad” David Remnick: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/17/081117fa_fact_remnick “The Joshua Generation” John…

“I came busting out of my momma’s … on January 28, 1977, during one of New York’s worst snowstorms.” So began The Coldest Winter Ever (1999), one of the most compelling novels of a generation, a cult classic that catapulted Sister Souljah from dissed-by-Bill-Clinton “raptivist” to best-selling author, trapping millions of readers in a trance-like…

Early into British filmmaker Danny Boyle’s most excellent, Slumdog Millionaire, we see Jamal, our plucky hero—all of 8 years old—dive feet first into the depths of a steaming Mumbai outhouse, only to emerge, crowing and covered in excrement, triumphantly clutching the object of his worship: a photo of Amitabh Bachchan, India’s biggest movie star. A…

Nov. 17, 2008—A grimy, crime-ridden, early 1970s-era Philadelphia, governed by the bullish Frank Rizzo, a former police commissioner turned mayor was the gritty backdrop for what later became a genre of music known as “Philadelphia soul.” When Philadelphia International Records (PIR) emerged in 1971, it was a pivotal moment in America, as the aftermath of…

Nov. 14, 2008—The rapidly changing fates of the NFL have diminished the sizzle of the great rivalries. But this weekend—when the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers resume hostilities in Wisconsin and the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins maul each another in D.C.—there will be more at stake than mere bragging rights. The Packers and…

Everyone’s wondering how the new presidential children, Sasha and Malia, will survive the cloistered, scrutinized life of the White House. In fact, in a Daily Beast interview today, FDR’s grandson Curtis Roosevelt—who spent a dozen of his childhood years living there—said, “I hope the Obama children are sufficiently prepared to have some grounding and some…

It’s encouraging that the multiracial rock band TV on the Radio has stormed the New York rock scene without anybody making much of the group’s demographic novelty. Their latest recording, Dear Science, (Interscope) is so engrossing and powerful that the band members could be from Mars, Venus and Saturn and that little detail might escape…