Tag: non-fiction
member name: Jesse BC
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May 02, 2008 05:08 AM EDT --
Neither editor nor expert, the reader reviewer occupies an ambiguous position in the food chain of the creative process. Uncertain of their own qualifications and abilities, the temptation exists . . . more
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May 29, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
There's always a tiny window in my day that I see from the back porch. My back porch faces northwest, over miles of cattle pasture and sagebrush and giant rolls of hay. From my back porch, the sky . . . more
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March 15, 2008 03:52 AM EDT --
On November 9, 1987, I became a Christian. That is to say, in the parlance of the Evangelical subculture to which I was committing myself, I "asked Jesus into my heart and became born again." . . . more
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April 23, 2008 12:41 AM EDT --
Twenty years after Xanadu tanked at the box office in 1980, producer/director Robert Greenwald made a name for himself shooting agitprop documentaries of the left-wing variety. In 2004 alone, . . . more
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May 24, 2008 06:54 PM EDT --
Perhaps the first thing Emily Bazelon forgot in her January 25, 2006, Slate article, " Hitting Bottom ," is that, when your subtitle reads, "Why America should outlaw spanking," . . . more
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June 24, 2008 08:09 AM EDT --
Such she often felt herself – struggling against terrific odds to maintain her courage; to say: 'But this is what I see; this is what I see,' and so to clasp some miserable remnant of her vision . . . more
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May 10, 2008 08:59 AM EDT --
On November 19, 1997, the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) was signed into law, representing one of the most sweeping changes in child welfare policy since the advent of mandatory reporting in 1960, . . . more
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February 22, 2008 09:42 PM EST --
My best picks for 2007
11) Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race from Sputnik to Today by Jay Barbree (HarperCollins, 2007)
Released to coincide with the 50th anniversary . . . more
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March 29, 2008 08:37 PM EDT --
Amnesty International has condemned them as torture devices. Law enforcement defends them as a "less lethal" means of subduing a belligerent suspect. Medical experts have raised . . . more
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February 27, 2008 02:47 AM EST --
Much effort has been sustained by the Bush administration in the last six years to connect the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein in the American public mind. Using the commonalities of Islam and hatred . . . more
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March 20, 2008 12:56 AM EDT --
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority . . . more
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