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Gates is smart ![racial profiling scandal] +Boris Kodjoe
Boris Kodjoe, the german-ghanain actor best known best known for starring in Showtime’s ‘Soul Food., steps in and takes on Professor Gates' arrest.Boris Kodjoe owns a mansion in Atlanta. But when he goes to answer his door, the black actor knows what...
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Wyclef's live performance “Fast Car” / Power Cuts Jam Session from Montreux
Live performance of “Fast Car” and Special Power Cuts Vibe Session from The Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Featuring Jerry Wonda, The Band and yours truly. First, I was trully impressed by Wyclef's blog,with a website being so comprehensive, he...
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Kanye Queened Again [we know : you cant get over him !]
It's been awhile since i didnt updated any joint of information and i want to say "sorry" to all of thoses whom spent a little of their time reading me ...geee So Much Going On .. didnt even have the time to take care of myself *sigh*. Nevermind, let's...
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"Take off the Blues” ****The Foreign Exchange
When sprinklings of jazz are on, down tempo basses rumbling, a man silken-voice tingling you all over. The Foreign Exchange might be few steps away.Phonte, from the North Carolina hip-hop outfit little Brother and Nicholay a dutch producer has made one...
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Must Do : An Evening with Gulnara Kasmalieva and Murtabek Djumaliev
Monday, May 18, 2009, 7:00 p.m. Based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, and trained in both film and visual art, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Murtabek Djumaliev produce video installations that encapsulate everyday life in Central Asia, and their work has been exhibited...
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Vice to Bagdad, Hip Hop To Gaza
A NYT article told us "le savoir-vivre à la Bagad" that has been held recently in the Iraq's capital. Nightclubs have reopened, Liquor stores proliferated, clandestine cockfighting settled as a week-end time out, we could only be led to think that Bagdad...
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The Digital Times ; the next paper ?
I t's perfect time, the newspaper industry is in real trouble - a bunch are up for sale or miring chap 11 (bankruptcy). While Wall Street is remotely eyeing Washington for a cash deal, the medias business’ catastrophe is alone with nothing left except...
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Talks Jacek Utko : Can design save the newspaper ?
Newspaper designer Jacek Utko suggests that it's time for a fresh, top-to-bottom rethink of the newspaper. In his work, he's proved that good design can help readers reconnect with newspapers. Why you should listen to him As the art director at Warsaw’s...
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Driving force for the luxury goods industry ?
Basel, Switzerland. BASELWORLD - the world's largest and most important trade show for the watch and jewellery industry.Somes are of the opinion that is extremely important for expanding their business activities and it offers a first-class networking...
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One Hot Night in the Bahian Backlands
"There are certain countries, the names of which fire the popular imagination. Brazil is one of them; an amalgam of primitive and sophisticated, jungle and elegance, beating drums and luscious jazz harmonics -- there's no other place like it in the world....
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Pitch Article Ideas
Have the following ready to cut and paste before you start to pitch an article : A synopsis/synopses of the article you are pitching. The lead paragraph of your article based on the facts as you know them today or what you think they are. (The facts may...
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Life after bankruptcy
The age of privatisation is over. Politics not the market is responsible for promoting the common good. Philosopher Jürgen Habermas talks to Thomas Assheuer about the necessity of an international world order. Die Zeit: Herr Habermas, the international...
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A word to Hollywood : In Recessionary Times, Smaller, Better Films, Please
John Farr Writer, editor and lecturer on timeless film Speculation abounds as to how various industries will weather and adapt to this deepening recession. The financial industry remains under a magnifying glass, as the word "bonus" gets swiftly erased...
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Richard Branson Interviewed by Ariana Huffington
Arianna joined Branson on Virgin America's inaugural flight from San Francisco to Orange County to get the Digg community's questions answered. A fully humble billionaire who reallly dont take life too seriously . During the high fly interview, Branson...
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Must Read⇒The Spirit of Level by Richard Wilkinson
" We can no longer improve the real quality of our life simply by the whole society getting richer " did struck a chord when late said by Richard Winkinson on Tyler Brulé's show :The Monocle Weekly. Amid a world wide financial crisis whose not yet over...
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Disappeared in the Name of National Security
Mohamed Faraq Bashmilah Client of the International Human Rights Clinic at NYU From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run "black sites" with no contact with the outside world. On May 5, 2005,...
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Torture : On the Waterboard
Hearing many of the Bush Administration claiming that the united states do not torture, i found it completely relevant to have a clear picture of what "Waterbordaing" really is.Christopher Hitchens found out for himself submitting to a brutal waterboarding...
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Wives Gone Wild!
by Elizabeth Hayt Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise doesn’t just showcase America’s funniest home catfights. It’s a post-feminist nightmare that preys on women’s shallowest, least-attractive qualities. And I can’t stop watching. Even before the start...
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Seven Habits of Truly Liberal
Alan Wolfe's persuasive portrait of liberalism. By K. Anthony Appiah Alan Wolfe is the sort of social theorist who would rather be plausible than provocative. Eschewing the lunacies of the left and the right—avoiding even their slighter sillinesses—he...
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Must Read : Aging Behind Bars
April 21, 2009 Among the grotesque realities of modern American life is the exponential rise of geriatric prisoners–men and women in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s, who committed crimes decades ago, are feeble and ill, yet remain incarcerated not only...
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The Army Of Unemployed: How The Laid-Off Can Change The World
Adlai Wertman Adlai Wertman is a Professor and Founder of the Society and Business Lab at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California With 47 million Americans already living in poverty, the newly unemployed will only serve...
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Anjulie; sultry and Canadian !
She sings, dances, plays guitar, writes songs, annoys people, don't drink or do drugs as a control freak, she also jump on other peoples beds.An exquisite way choosen by the vocal styled south american descent singer -Anjulie- to talk us down about herself....
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MenShorts went Gentry as Spring Sneaked In.
The sun is shining, Shake Shack is thriving, It's official — spring is here to stay.Goodbye darkvador coats, desperatly long burlington socks, southern- farm -style cardigans. Hello mid modern sunglasses, coffee shops terraces, M7 YSL spring scent, akward...
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My somalian pirate-blast
Yesterday while reading an article- You are being lied about pirates" featured on Huffpo : I blurted " No, they didn’t ". Let me explain you why. You certainly didn’t miss on the media landscape all this fuss about pirates hijacking in Somalia’s sea....
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Digital is no longer a category; it's a way of life.
A constant flow of innovation and information has changed the way we communicate not only with each other, but also how marketers reach consumers. Are you ready for this new world? Ad Age's Digital Conference offers deep discussions of digital's influence...