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Former BJP renegade Uma Bharti, a woman whose verbal diarrhea cost her the goodwill of even that strategic mess of a party, tries to spin her way out of political oblivion. Spoiler: it won't work.
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"Indeed, watching the Republican National Convention reminds me of when Richard Nixon gave his famous Checkers speech and spoke of his wife’s 'respectable Republican cloth coat,' because this convention is the cloth coat of visual design. Gone are the flourishes and extravaganza that characterized the Democratic convention, comparatively speaking; this week, modesty and understatement preside over everything."
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Bret Stephens looks back on Bernard Lewis's predictions in "Clash of Civilizations." He didn't quite see that Muslim-on-Muslim violence coming.
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A humorous take on private school admissions forms. (via Design Observer)
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A sober look at the successes and failures of conservative internationalism (or as you may know it, "neocon thinking") in light of Condi's visit to Libya.
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The simplest weather report ever.
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"deborah franklin was barely literate and ran the family business and took care of ben franklin's bastard son while he gallavanted about europe."
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I like how choking is broken down into "food" and "non-food".