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Okay, I do get why people are saying that giving Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize seems premature, when he’s been in office a bare nine months. On the other hand, the committee seemed quite clear that the award is meant as encouragement for his positions as much as for anything he’s accomplished. It’s a [...]

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Regular updates on the election and its aftermath: Breaking News – The Lede Blog – NYTimes.com

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The big gay shrug / Sorry, enemies of gay marriage. Prop 8 or no, you’ve already lost Let us hereby be reminded, before sadness and frustration overwhelm once more: Proposition 8 and its ilk are merely the last, fitful gasps of a long-dying ideology, markers of a certain kind of sad, conservative desperation. They are [...]

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But I don’t think you intended it. What makes the United States special, and what makes you special, is precisely the fact that we are willing to uphold our values and our ideals even when it’s hard, not just when it’s easy; even when we are afraid and under threat, not just when it’s expedient [...]

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Documenting the return of U.S. war dead – The Big Picture – Boston.com. Be sure to continue to number 15.

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