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  • September 2008

    • Why Her 'Servant's Heart' Matters

      Wall Street Journal  |  Sep 6, 08 1:03 PM CDT

      Why Her 'Servant's Heart' Matters

      (Newser) - Sarah Palin has the “power of the normal,” and she has the Democrats rightfully running scared, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal . The mother of 5 with her hockey-mom jokes and imperfect voice is "vividly genuine," a trait that helped her be the first to do any real damage to Obama in a speech. More importantly, her appeal for old-school conservatism—not the watered-down modern version—"was so old it seemed new, and startling." It may well be enough to change the race. More »

  • August 2008

    • Put Catcher to Rest Already

      Good Magazine  |  Aug 28, 08 7:16 PM CDT

      Put Catcher to Rest Already

      (Newser) - JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye may have once been edgy, coming-of-age literature, but does it deserve a place in today's curricula? It's time to retire Holden Caulfield, argues Anne Trubek in Good magazine. "Salinger’s novel lacks the currency or shock value it once had," she says. "But it is still ubiquitously taught even though many newer novels of adolescence are available."  More »

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      education  • literature  • opinion  • fiction  • The Catcher in the Rye  • JD Salinger

    • Little League's Foul Plays

      Deadspin  |  Aug 26, 08 7:51 PM CDT

      Little League's Foul Plays

      (Newser) - Just like their big-league heroes, Little League players compete each year in their own small-fry World Series. But Deadspin offers 10 reasons to cancel the big game:   Flat-brimmed caps: Learn to crease those caps boys. Giving up home runs to Canada: No self-respecting team should lose to hockey players. The National Anthem on violin: Is there anything less manly? More »

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      list  • sports  • opinion  • Little League World Series  • Deadspin

    • Wagyu: 'the Hummer of Beef'

      Esquire  |  Aug 25, 08 7:41 PM CDT

      Wagyu: 'the Hummer of Beef'

      (Newser) - Wagyu beef, a Japanese tradition catching on in the US, uses cows “bred so that fat corrupts the striations of every muscle,” Tom Junod writes in Esquire . After sampling some at $130 per pound, Junod ponders how Americans can be attracted to such excess. Despite America's ecological awakening, "we respond with the Hummer of beef, the hedge fund of beef, the foie gras of beef," Junod writes. More »

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      Japan  • opinion  • beef  • Esquire  • delicacy  • slaughterhouse

    • Must Globetrotting Aussies Be Grounded?

      Wired  |  Aug 20, 08 2:54 PM CDT

      Must Globetrotting Aussies Be Grounded?

      (Newser) - It's even harder being green if you're Australian, since it takes a long-haul flight to get practically anywhere, Adele Horin observes in the Sydney Morning Herald . Aussies consider globetrotting to be part of their birthright, but Horin thinks it's time her country-mates recognize airplanes for what they are: "toxic flying machines" that pump out as much CO2 on one round trip to London as most consumers expend in 2 years. More »

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      Australia  • air travel  • pollution  • opinion  • greenhouse-gas emissions  • Wired

    • Analyst Rules Could Use Some Analysis

      New York Times  |  Aug 12, 08 5:46 PM CDT

      Analyst Rules Could Use Some Analysis

      (Newser) - Frank Quattrone is back in the investment business and is taking on research rules, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times . Quattrone thinks Wall Street should try to remove the settlement that forced the separation of investment banking and research. The rules are “denying small companies the access to research analysts,” by forcing pared-down research departments to focus solely on large companies, he says. More »

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      Wall Street  • finance  • opinion  • analyst  • market research  • Frank Quattrone

    • Hookups Won't Ruin Her Life

      Salon  |  Aug 5, 08 12:22 PM CDT

      Hookups Won't Ruin Her Life

      (Newser) - New books are urging girls in the "hookup generation" to stay chaste, but Tracy Clark-Flory trumpets the virtues of casual sex in Salon. While abstinence authors rate women as whores or angels, the 24-year-old argues that hookups help women vet partners physically and emotionally. Today's females take a feminist approach to sex, "claiming the traditionally male side of the stud/slut double-standard." More »

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      feminism  • relationship  • opinion  • abstinence  • premarital sex

  • July 2008

    • Obama: The Arrogance of Hope

      Washington Post  |  Jul 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Obama: The Arrogance of Hope

      (Newser) - When Barack Obama appeared on the scene, the nation asked, “Who is he?” Now the Washington Post 's Charles Krauthammer wants to know, “Who does he think he is?” Obama—who wants to speak at the hallowed ground of Germany's Brandenburg Gate—seems to have an awfully high opinion of himself for someone who’s accomplished…what, exactly? He has not one significant legislative achievement, and his most memorable private sector work was a book on his favorite topic: himself. More »

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      Barack Obama  • opinion

    • No More Navel-Gazing; Go After McCain

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT

      No More Navel-Gazing; Go After McCain

      (Newser) - There are two races for president this year, Michael Tomasky writes in the Guardian , “a race about Barack Obama and a race about what the GOP has done to the country.” And Obama would be well served to turn the focus to John McCain, whose recent gaffes have gone unanswered as the Democrat tries to make people vote for him—and not against his opponent. More »

  • June 2008