Eric Ehrmann: Affirmative Action Divides Brazil as Election Nears
It's a reminder of how efforts to globalize the United States model of social organization by race can cause the fragmentation of national identity in a regional power like Brazil.
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Jon Chattman: Band on the Rise: Get to Know ‘The Drums’
The Drums' track "Let's Go Surfing" features the best whistling in a song since the infectious Peter, Bjorn & John recent classic "Young Folks."
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Shane Snow: How to Become an Internet Land Baron
Domains cost anywhere from a few dollars to a few hundred, depending on who's in charge; in secondary markets, valuable domain names can sell for hundreds of thousands. Enter Juan Diego Calle.
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AP Issues Standards Memo: ‘Combat In Iraq Is Not Over’
At some point in the last two weeks, you may have been told by someone in the news that combat operations in Iraq were over, and that the last combat troop had left the country. Well, the Associated Press is not having any of it, and in a m...
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Jan Brewer Admits She Was Wrong About Beheading Claims
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said Friday she was wrong when she claimed that headless bodies were turning up in the Arizona desert as part of border-related violence."That was an error, if I said that," Brewer said about beheading...
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