Sean Penn went a little hard (kept it respectful, I think) at his director Terrence Malick and their movie Tree of Life in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro: “I didn& ...
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Read more »In the current issue of the New Yorker, our favorite Torontonian writer Malcolm Gladwell writes on the similarities between dog fighting, an almost universally scorned activity, and the most popular ...
Read more »Sean Macaulay in thedailybeast.com: In his books The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell has dissected many inspirational underdog victories, but his own triumph ...
Read more »David Grann, in The New Yorker, wrote an amazing (like one of the best I've read in the last couple years) piece about the case of Cameron Todd Willingham who was convicted and executed for ...
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" The Conservative Government was sued in the Supreme Court for the illegal age of sexual consent increase as it was a direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution. A book about the court case that remains ..."
Octaevius Altair"also check this out -- all the stuff obama had to deal with in his first term http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/30/120130fa_fact_lizza?currentPage=all "
avp"a gingrich / obama race would definitely be uglier, but there's still no way gingrich wins. "
avp"We shouldn't be funding the Catholic school system. If they're going to take their orders from the Vatican and Catholic dogma, then they don't deserve our money."
C
"im still a bit cynical"
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