The Defense Department’s general counsel said that he believed Martin Luther King, Jr., might have supported the current wars: I believe that if Dr. King were alive today, he would recognize that we live in a complicated world, and that our nation’…
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Martin Luther King Jr.: Stop the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Stop the Mugging of the Middle Class and Poor by the Wealthy
January 17th, 2011 |
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MLK Day Crunch Crumbs: 2011 Golden Globe Winners; Kim Cattrall New Face Of Olay Total Effects; Nickelodeon Reviving Power Rangers!
January 17th, 2011 |
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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ‘Crunchers. Remember: “It’s a day on, not a day off!” So remember to do something wonderful for someone else today. We’re up bright and early to deliver your Morning Links — which counts as our good deed for the day. You can thank us later! -Here’s a list of [...]
Human communication: Gesture politics
October 28th, 2010 |
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People talk a lot, but their hand signals may convey more useful information
IT IS received wisdom that humanity owes a lot of its evolutionary success to its remarkable ability to communicate. So much so, in fact, that few have bothered to test this hypothesis in any systematic way. Now, a group of researchers led by Andrew King, of the Royal Veterinary College in Britain, has tried to plug this gaping hole. Their first results have just been published in Biology Letters.
Hunter-gatherers’ practice of scouring their surroundings for edible plants is responsible for half of the name anthropologists have bestowed on them. And for good reason. With hunting likely to have been an intermittent diversion, effective foraging would have been crucial to tiding early humans over to the next woolly mammoth. So Dr King and his colleagues conducted a study to see how, if at all, communication enhances foraging prowess. …
“Pants On The Ground†Singer Record Deal
January 22nd, 2010 |
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General Larry Platt is the biggest sensation to hit the audition room on the ninth season of American Idol, and there may be a recording contract in the retiree’s future. Platt famously lambasted the saggy pants-wearing culture common with an overwhelming number of men under 30 in his self-written ditty, “Pants On The Ground.”
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General Larry Platt “The View†VIDEO ["Pants On The Ground" LIVE]
January 18th, 2010 |
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Often imitated, but never duplicated: Hilarity ensues when The View and American Idol 9 breakout star General Larry Pratt commemorate MLK Day with a live performance of Pratt’s original single “Pants On The Ground!”
Platt is veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and took part in Alabama’s 1965 “Bloody Sunday March” from Selma to Birmingham [...]
Katie Couric Slams NY Times For Error-Filled Walter Cronkite Appraisal
July 25th, 2009 |
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Katie Couric slammed the New York Times for running an error-filled article about CBS News legend Walter Cronkite.
In her “Notebook” on CBSNews.com on Friday, Couric praised the “exuberant and heartfelt tributes” to Cronkite but sharply noted…
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Community Organizing for Peace
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Having spent the past decade advocating in different congressional districts for peace in the Middle East, I have found a similar response: elected officials act when they hear from their constituents.