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James Marcus is a writer, translator, critic, and editor. He is the author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut and five translations from the Italian (the most recent being Dino: The Life and Films of Dino De Laurentiis and Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror). He has contributed to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Newsday, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Book Review, Lingua Franca, the Nation, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other publications. He also written about jazz, pop, and classical music for Salon, The Oregonian, and WBUR Online Arts, and is currently editor-at-large at The Columbia Journalism Review. He blogs at www.housemirth.blogspot.com.
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Auto industry still faces rocky road »
Posted by: STONERS 2 hours, 11 minutes ago in Business & Finance
The auto industry has been battered by a never-ending storm of bad news for more than a year, but the last few weeks have been ...
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Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 2 hours, 48 minutes ago in News
Exclusive: International Energy Agency official claims world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit
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Bayh, Conrad, Feinstein, Lieberman and Warner form national suicide pact »
Posted by: tehranchik 4 hours, 2 minutes ago in Political News
Senators from both parties on Tuesday put new pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to turn the power to trim entitlement benefits over to an independent ...
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How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop »
Posted by: tehranchik 5 hours, 34 minutes ago in Political Opinion
What's particularly maddening about Ross' hype is that it had already been well established that Al-Awlaki was the imam at Hasan's Virginia mosque ...
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Whistleblowers: Blackwater approved payoffs of Iraqi officials »
Posted by: tehranchik 5 hours, 45 minutes ago in Political News
To stifle criticism of civilian killings, the American mercenary group formerly known as Blackwater approved payoffs of up to $1 million for Iraqi politicians, according ...
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No escape for a deer in the zoo's lions' den »
Posted by: BronxBomber 5 hours, 47 minutes ago in News
Washington DC - A deer that jumped a wall at the National Zoo was fatally injured by two lions as dozens of startled spectators looked on ...
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Woman said she had cancer - Used money for boob job »
Posted by: BronxBomber 6 hours, 4 minutes ago in News
Texas - Count Trista Joy Lathern’s husband and co-workers among those who now feel misled and betrayed by her alleged pretense that she had breast ...
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Framed for child porn by a PC virus »
Posted by: BronxBomber 6 hours, 7 minutes ago in Science & Technology
Of all the sinister things that Internet viruses do, this might be the worst: They can make you an unsuspecting collector of child pornography. Heinous ...
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Ex-astronaut Lisa Nowak pleads guilty in attack »
Posted by: BronxBomber 6 hours, 38 minutes ago in News
Florida - A former NASA astronaut charged with attacking a romantic rival pleaded guilty to burglary and battery but was sentenced only to a year probation ...
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New York Will Be Broke Before Christmas! »
Posted by: BronxBomber 6 hours, 43 minutes ago in Political News
New York - Governor David Paterson called an unusual joint session of the Legislature to implore recalcitrant lawmakers to close the state’s huge budget gap ...
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Top 10 Reasons Why the World Won't End in 2012 »
Posted by: BronxBomber 7 hours, 11 minutes ago in Science & Technology
Ray Villard takes on some of the more popular doomsday theories, debunking each in turn.
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Lost Persian Army Found in Sahara »
Posted by: BronxBomber 7 hours, 24 minutes ago in Science & Technology
Sahara Desert - Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was ...
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Grizzly bear eats airplane in Alaska! »
Posted by: BronxBomber 7 hours, 42 minutes ago in Humor
Alaska - The owner of this 1958 Piper Cub - a wood-and-fabric taildragger popular with back-country pilots - had been on a long fishing trip and after landing ...
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Will Olympia Snowe Get 'Scozzafaved'? -- Politics Daily »
Posted by: TimALoftis 8 hours, 23 minutes ago in Political Opinion
There was a piece in the Washington Post Tuesday about how the name of Dede Scozzafava -- the upstate New York Republican who got run out ...
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Greek Orthodox Priest Attacked By Marine Reservist In Anti-Muslim Hysteria »
Posted by: TimALoftis 8 hours, 39 minutes ago in Religion
t's not for nothing that General George Casey warned against an anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre. But a whole ...
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