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IBM for a Smarter African Continent?
In an intriguing look at how I.B.M. is seeking to make new telecommunications footholds in Africa, a New York Times article yesterday offered another glimpse into how that continent may be edging...
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DADT Repeal Languishes in Senate
A bill that would have repealed “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” was blocked yesterday in the U.S. Senate via a John McCain-led filibuster. The vote to halt repeal was 56-43. Here’s the video from the Senate...
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What Was Behind Kenny McKinley’s Apparent Suicide?
As reports referenced below indicate, something dark may have been lurking behind what players and coaches have described as the lively and happy demeanor of Kenny McKinley, the former wide receiver...
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More Battles over Textbook Curriculum
In step with the Texas Board of Education’s attempts — and successes — in seeking to alter educational curriculum to give materials a more conservative bent, the state of Florida recently approved...
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What’s in a Day?
From prematurely shuttered retailers to lifeless, peopleless downtown haunts, Sundays in many parts of the deep South are an utter bore. Blue laws, which restrict alcohol sales, shopping and other...
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The Gospel Untruth
Since this is the time so many folks are interested in talking about the good news, let’s do just that. With Easter right around the corner, believers will no doubt wax on about how the empty grave is...
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Belated Thoughts on the Civil War Sesquicentennial
Within the Veil was he born, said I; and there within shall he live, — a Negro and a Negro’s son. Holding in that little head — ah, bitterly! — the unbowed pride of a hunted race, clinging with that...
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Georgia Takes Arizona’s Lead on Immigration
My home state, Georgia, falling in lockstep with Arizona and other states that have attempted to take a cavalier approach to the immigration delimma, recently passed its own law, and Gov. Nathan Deal...
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Love Wins But Gandhi’s Still in Hell
Time featured an in-depth article last week on Mars Hill Bible Church pastor Rob Bell, who has torn a path of criticism through the evangelic ranks lately following the release of his book, Love Wins:...
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The Case for Taking Bin Laden Alive
I wasn’t planning on chiming in on the whole Osama bin Laden thing, since it’s been covered ad nauseam in the media following his demise, but that was before I read that Pittsburgh Steelers running...
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