AS Sudan tries to bomb and starve the Nuba people into submission, it faces an unlikely antagonist: an American man from Florida who married a Nuban woman, gets by on local foods like locusts, and is fighting mortars with video cameras. Ryan Boyette, 30, is trying to get President Obama to do more to...
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Battling Sudan’s Bombs With Videos
Ghastly Outdated Party
IT’S finally sinking in. Republicans are getting queasy at the gruesome sight of their party eating itself alive, savaging the brand in ways that will long resonate. “Republicans being against sex is not good,” the G.O.P. strategist Alex Castellanos told me mournfully. “Sex is popular.” He said his party is “coming to grips with...
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Transportation bill facing detours (Politico)
The machinations of transportation bills in Congress may seem like the kind of inside-the-Beltway politics that make the rest of the country snooze. But after more than 800 days of stopgaps, an impending deadline and a series of delays in the Senate and House, local politicians and transportation officials across the country are grabbing...
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LaHood: Highway bill outlook bleak (Politico)
Congress won’t be able to pass a comprehensive transportation bill before the March 31 deadline, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Monday morning. “I’m going to use past as prologue. We’ve gone 3½ years beyond the last bill. I served in Congress for 14 years — I don’t see Congress passing a bill before this...
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Movie: The Movie — Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘epic,’ star-studded post-Oscar skit
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Playboy’s plan for a strip club… in outer space
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How global warming is changing winemaking
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Adam Sandler’s ‘embarrassing’ career: By the numbers
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The alleged Putin assassination plot: A campaign trick?
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Los Angeles: The Resurrection of Antonio Villaraigosa
When he was a young man Antonio Villaraigosa, dropped out of school, was in numerous street fights, and had a tattoo inked on his right arm that read: Born to Raise Hell. In 2005 he became the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since 1872. It was practically scripted: the inspirational tale of a...
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