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Gatorade Sets Tiger Free
Tiger Woods fancied cocktail waitresses who were not his wife. Gatorade did not fancy that fancying and has decided to part ways with the golf superstar Gatorade said Friday it was ending its sponsorship relationship with embattled golf star Tiger Woods. That makes Gatorade the third sponsor to drop Woods since he confessed to marital…
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Meet the 'Faces of America': Malcolm Gladwell
The Root’s editor-in-chief, Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., launched a PBS show in 2010 that builds on the success of his African-American Lives, a series that traced the ancestry of famous black Americans. Faces of America, uses the same potent combination of traditional genealogical research and advanced DNA techniques to explore the immigrant origins of…
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Rep. Trent Franks Has Thoughts on Slavery
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona makes makes an…interesting parallel at the 6:22 mark
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Today in Collegiate Racism: The Univ. of Missouri
Cotton balls scattered outside of the University of Missouri’s Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center in an apparent act of vandalism. FULL STORY: Columbia Daily Tribune
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Oh, By the Way: Congress Renews Patriot Act
While we’ve been dishing over health care reform, Congress went ahead and renewed the Patriot Act without any new civil liberties protections Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to renew three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, after the Senate abandoned the PATRIOT reform effort and approved the extension by a…
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Blog Noir: "The Unfireables"
G.D. of Post Bourgie discusses the state of New York public school tenure, which he finds “ridiculous” As I’ve blogged about before, education experts have come to see teacher quality as such an important factor to student achievement that it can override other factors. Clinging to this system of tenure and seniority (in New York…
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BREAKING: Desiree Rogers to Step Down
Desiree Rogers is stepping down as the White House social secretary. According to Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times: “As we turn the corner on the first year,” Rogers told me, “this is a good time for me to explore opportunities in the corporate world.” Rogers told me it has been “an honor and a…
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Sources Say David Paterson Will Not Seek Re-Election
Word on the street is David Paterson has put the kibosh on a re-election bid. From the New York Daily News Embattled Gov. Paterson has pulled the plug on his bid to seek reelection, a source close to the governor said Friday. Paterson will announce the decision later Friday. Paterson has been under fire for…
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