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Hacktivist's suicide intensifies criticism of U.S. attorney, MIT
Aaron Swartz's legacy was already guaranteed, even at 26: He helped create Reddit and RSS, which distributes content over the Internet. But his suicide by hanging Friday has also stoked a politically malignant aftermath for the prosecutors pursuing 13...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Prosecution, Computer Networking and Internet
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Wikipedia, the people's encyclopedia
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia anyone can write and edit (yes, even you!), but most people don't think much about who performs those tasks. With half a billion people around the world relying on Wikipedia for information, we should. More than 1.5 million...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Dick Cheney, Japan, Google Inc., Minority Groups
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Vivid impressions of Russian culture in 'Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia'
Cuban author José Manuel Prieto's playful and fascinating book, “Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia,” is, according to Prieto's narrator, an encyclopedia-style guide to a book the narrator is planning to write about a man named Thelonious Monk...Tags: Thelonious Monk, Google Inc., Arts and Culture, Trine Tsouderos, Libraries
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I Am the Worst: Of Monsters and Men Edition
Errant followers of this blog may recall that this summer I went with a couple of friends to Iceland where we gallivanted around, interviewed the mayor of Reykjavik, and stayed in the band Of Monsters and Men’s old apartment. My friend Trin went...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, Entertainment Events, Uptown, F-bomb Dropping
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City Lights: The play with the unprintable name
This column would be so easy to write if only I worked for OC Weekly. At that rakish-and-proud-of-it publication, just about anything goes, and that includes swear words. But here I am stuck at an apparently family-friendly paper, which poses a...Tags: Entertainment, TheaterWorks, Arts and Culture, M (movie), The New York Times
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The many what-if's of Richard Nixon
A century ago on Jan. 9, Richard Nixon was born in a Southern California agricultural subdivision dubbed Yorba Linda, in a 900-square-foot mail-order house assembled by his father. The centennial of America's 37th president won't be met with much...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Government, Fred Thompson, FBI, Elections
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What is the 'fiscal cliff'?
I have been wondering about this fiscal cliff deal. Perhaps an economist who might read this could explain it better. I was wondering, first off, what is the fiscal cliff? I looked it up online and got a simple definition of what it is. What I found...Tags: Fiscal Cliff
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Cultural Exchange: Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' endures
LONDON — Has anyone built a better "Mousetrap"? Britons just getting over celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee are now in the throes of another: the 60th anniversary of the world's longest-running play, "The Mousetrap" by Agatha...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Radio, Arts and Culture, Mark Rylance, The Lion King (movie)
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As we celebrate Ray Lewis, don't forget murder victims
On the day Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis announced he would be retiring after this season, my thoughts drifted back to a bitterly cold winter day in a cemetery in Akron, Ohio. That's where Richard Lollar was buried and where his bespectacled...
Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Tennessee Titans, St. Louis Rams, National Football League, Sports
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If religons can have limits, why can't gun owners?
I got a lot of feedback on my Sunday column/letter to the NRA, but in the spirit of the season I figured I'd wait until after the holidays to fire back. At the end of the column, I rhetorically asked, "Who -- besides a homicidal maniac -- really needs...Tags: Laws, Gun Control, U.S. Congress, Michael Mukasey, Separation of Church and State
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A murder mystery that just won't die
Sixty years ago, an extraordinary reign began in England, one that would provide the nation with a comforting measure of stability and continuity during some of the most tumultuous decades of the 20th century and right on into the far-from-placid 21st....Tags: Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (2012), Elizabeth II, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture
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Art appreciation 101: 'Glittering Images' by Camille Paglia
-------------------- Glittering Images A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars Camille Paglia Pantheon: 202 pp., $30 -------------------- In the 1990s Camille Paglia established herself as a cultural critic to be reckoned with. Her daring...Tags: Entertainment, Culture, Radio, Wesleyan University, Fine Artists
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