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Dear Canada: Leave The Pranks To Us [Pranks]

Canadian engineering students try to replicate a car-hanging prank previously pulled by U.S. students - but come up horribly short. Oh, Canada. You're just like America's little brother that tries......

Jalopnik [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Andrew Didorosi at 5:30 PM | 1 Citations

A Role Model So Much Larger Than Life

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

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Wash Post Nation [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Paul Schwartzman at 12:00 AM

A Role Model So Much Larger Than Life

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

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Wash Post Metro [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Paul Schwartzman at 12:00 AM

A Role Model So Much Larger Than Life

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

Tags: Life , UNITED STATES , A , Philadelphia , Indonesia , Illinois , Hawaii , Model , Barack Obama , The White House , SO , Columbia University , Jesus Christ , Peggy Noonan , Martin Luther King Jr. , much , Harvard University , than , role , gettysburg , richard nixon , time inc. , george washington , doris kearns goodwin , abraham lincoln , larger , national mall , herbert hoover , Gettysburg College , david axelrod , Frederick Douglass , Franklin D. Roosevelt , state capitol , Adlai Stevenson , Springfield (Illinois) , Abner Mikva , Dan Shomon , Marian Anderson , Eric Foner , Marty Nesbitt , Allen Guelzo , David Herbert Donald , Henry Bacon

Wash Post Metro [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Paul Schwartzman at 12:00 AM

A Role Model So Much Larger Than Life

He could have chosen Frederick Douglass, whose fevered oratory he praised to his law school students. He could have evoked Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality presaged his own historic election. Or Franklin D. Roosevelt, who inherited an economic crisis even more crippling than......

Tags: Life , UNITED STATES , A , Philadelphia , Indonesia , Illinois , Hawaii , Model , Barack Obama , The White House , SO , Columbia University , Jesus Christ , Peggy Noonan , Martin Luther King Jr. , much , Harvard University , than , role , gettysburg , richard nixon , time inc. , george washington , doris kearns goodwin , abraham lincoln , larger , national mall , herbert hoover , Gettysburg College , david axelrod , Frederick Douglass , Franklin D. Roosevelt , state capitol , Adlai Stevenson , Springfield (Illinois) , Abner Mikva , Dan Shomon , Marian Anderson , Eric Foner , Marty Nesbitt , Allen Guelzo , David Herbert Donald , Henry Bacon

Wash Post Politics [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Paul Schwartzman at 12:00 AM

Obama's Path to Faith Has Been Eclectic

The presidential inauguration ceremony on Tuesday will begin and end with prayers from two men whom Barack Obama considers role models, advisers and dear friends. One, Joseph Lowery, is an 87-year-old black liberal Methodist from the Deep South who spent his career fighting for civil rights. The......

Wash Post Politics [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Eli Saslow at 12:00 AM

Will State Get a Bargain in Columbia Eminent Domain Seizures?

The Columbia Spectator is reporting that the Empire State Development Corporation decided today to take the properties of the last two hold-out owners in Columbia's West Harlem expansion footprint through eminent domain. It's not an unexpected move: In July, the ESDC declared the footprint blighted,...

Tags: Real Estate , Columbia University , Manhattanville , West Harlem

Home | The New York Observer [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Tom Acitelli at 4:26 PM

Brain Cells Inc., No Dummy, Raised $50M Before Recession Got Really Ugly

Biotech, Neuroscience, Life Sciences Luke Timmerman wrote: At least in the world of finance, Brain Cells Inc. can make a credible claim that it has a little more going on upstairs than your average biotech company. The San Diego-based startup had flawless timing, by completing a $50 million Series B...

Xconomy [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Luke Timmerman at 3:00 AM | 1 Citations

For Many Picks, Obama Turns to Academic Elites

Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......

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Wash Post Business [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Alec MacGillis at 12:00 AM

For Many Picks, Obama Turns to Academic Elites

Barack Obama's chief economic adviser was one of the youngest people to be tenured at Harvard and later became its president. His budget director went to Princeton and the London School of Economics, his choice for ambassador to the United Nations was a Rhodes scholar, and his White House counsel......

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Wash Post Education [ Feed - Focus - Exclude ] by Alec MacGillis at 12:00 AM

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