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The Carlisle Times
Est. 2011
Good call on the otters (Taken with Instagram at London 2012 Main Press Centre / International Broadcast Centre)
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Alex liked a good fight, and we had our share—always about politics, since nothing less was really worth arguing over. I thought his ideas about climate change were loopy and he thought my ideas about the radical far right were hysterical. In the end the fights never really amounted to much. He pissed off some people, but he made just about everybody howl with laughter. He had a way with the nasty phrase (during a spat with MoJo, he called it “the most boring magazine in the world”) but in person he always greeted the people he was going after with high good humor. He talked to anybody and everybody.
MoJo’s Jim Ridgeway remembers his former colleague, Alexander Cockburn.
The context for the “most boring magazine in the world” is here. Warning: 1980s.
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We are all here today because we want to bring about that moment when we stop adding names. When we can come to a gathering like this one and not talk about the fight against AIDS, but instead commemorate the birth of a generation that is free of AIDS.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • During a speech at the International AIDS conference on Monday, announcing that the United States would increase AIDS research funding by $80 million. The money will go to a variety of research and clinical projects, including new projects focused on treating pregnant women with HIV and increasing the availability of volunteer circumcision services for men. source (via • follow)
TeachAIDS.org represents a major step towards this goal. Founder Piya Sorcar has created something that is making a difference, country by country, language by language, across the world.
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Elizabeth Taylor
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“In Event of Moon Disaster”, July 18, 1969.
White House speechwriter, William Safire, was asked to write a speech that President Nixon would make in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the Moon.
It was never delivered, and this speech was quietly tucked away into Nixon’s records.
From - “American Originals” Treasures from the National Archives
Source: Nixon Library
Whoa.
Here is the thing you must bear in mind. I do not represent public opinion. I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public and the public’s opinion of these interests. I must represent not the excited opinion of the West but the real interests of the whole people.
LOL CNN
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News graphics FTW.
For Sunset, a new dawn: Sunset Boulevard has long operated as a zipper across the length of the city. But what the boulevard does most dramatically now is provide a bridge from private spaces to a more public-minded kind of city-making.
The second in Christopher Hawthorne’s On the Boulevards series.
Photo: Giant advertisements dominate the Sunset Strip, hoping to catch the eye of a steady stream of revelers. Credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
