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Miracles for Christmas
(Photo: Geoff S.) It’s the Christmas season, so why not indulge ourselves? Let’s ask for a few miracles. In fact, we in America have had a miracle …
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A Death of One’s Own
Princeton - Dudley Clendinen, a writer and journalist, has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a terminal degenerative illness. In The New York Times earlier this year, he wrote movingly both …
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Signs of Intelligent Life in the Murdoch Universe
Los Angeles Smog. (Photo: Robert S. Donovan / Flickr) No one accuses The Wall Street Journal, icon of the business world, of devoting excessive column space to …
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Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan (2)
American soldiers during a push against insurgents in the Zhari district of Afghanistan, west of Kandahar city, on September 21, 2010. (Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) …
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Follow English Commoners’ Lead: Band Together to Force Corporate Reform (2)
In recent years, senior Wall Street managers relentlessly pursued short-term profit and personal windfalls by any and all means while bringing Main Street to its knees (where it remains …
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Happy Holidays, Corporate America – I’d Like to File a Complaint
In the spirit of the season, I’d like to file a complaint – about complaints. Corporate America just doesn’t handle them the way they used to. As in, at …
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Going Postal
There was a time not too long ago when mantles lined with Christmas cards were as ubiquitous as Christmas trees, when birthdays bestowed us with similar arrays, when the …
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Re-Occupy: A Movement Seeks a Sanctuary
As Occupy Wall Street’s birthday party got going, the mood was mixed—not unlike the mood with which, in a series of improvisations, the movement began three months earlier on …
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Revolutions Don’t Happen in a Day: Five Ways OWS Can Stay Powerful and Truly Build a Movement
On September 17, we took Liberty Square, used it to begin to create the social norms and institutions of a society to come, and became the Occupy movement. We …
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Compassion Is Our New Currency: Notes on 2011’s Preoccupied Hearts and Minds
Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! …